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There’s something to be said here for neighborhood interactions among children of varying ages. I used to enjoy playing around building forts in the suburbs wit
by comfypotato 4y ago
There’s something to be said here for neighborhood interactions among children of varying ages. I used to enjoy playing around building forts in the suburbs with some other young guys in friend’s neighborhoods that had lots on kids in the same age ball-park.
It’s not life-changing autonomy, but it was definitely free from any sort of helicopter parents for afternoons at a time.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoMy 10-speed bicycle in 1978 (and on) was what gave me autonomy. As did my high-rise, banana-seat bike before that. My daughters had bikes since even before the age when I had got my first bike but they seemed to rarely ride them.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThere are probably a lot fewer kids per neighborhood than when you were growing up.