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It's striking to me that the extreme end of 'freedom' here is letting a 9 year old ride a train alone. I must be getting old. I realize it's relevant because S
by caturopath 5y ago
It's striking to me that the extreme end of 'freedom' here is letting a 9 year old ride a train alone. I must be getting old.
I realize it's relevant because Skenazy wrote and talked about doing so, but it's also just so non-extreme.
- semitones 5y agoI agree, it doesn't seem that extreme to me. Maybe something like letting your 9 year old get on a bus to another state, without a phone, and telling them "come back when you're done having fun!" would be extreme.
- bell-cot 5y agoMy grandfather did this with my father - though with specific marching orders. Regularly, maybe starting when dad was 7. It was the 1920's (s/bus/train/g). So far as I can tell from old family stories, it was considered pretty normal for an extended family with farms that were hundreds of miles apart. When school was out, the "free" young farm labor could be sent to where there was work that needed doing.
- sjg007 5y agoWe stick kids on the plane unaccompanied to be minded by a flight attendant.
- vlunkr 5y agoThat may be because myself and many others here live in areas where we never rode trains or subways at all.
- jonny_eh 5y agoRiding the subway is far safer than being driven in a car. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/12/19/heres-how-much-safer-transit-is-compared-to-driving/ https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/12/19/heres-how-much-safer-...