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This is the safest era we've ever been in. Stifling independence over incredibly rare hypothetical situations is not the way.
by huimang 3y ago
This is the safest era we've ever been in. Stifling independence over incredibly rare hypothetical situations is not the way.
- myth_drannon 3y agoToo many cars, teenagers driving and on the cellphone. I'm not afraid from violence but from cars.
- zabzonk 3y agohow does hovering over your child prevent either of you being hit when a car mounts the pavement?
- ip26 3y agoHave you seen how oblivious young kids are around cars? It’s not about a runaway car driving down the sidewalk.
- myth_drannon 3y agoWell, in many suburbs there is no pavement (in Canada at least). Children play and too many times they just run into the street or just walking and without thinking move 1 meter sideways. Also some playgrounds are very height like 2-3 meters and children fall from it (like flat with back and head on the sand). Anyways, maybe I need a therapy to calm me down.
- ip26 3y agoNine is widely considered too young to stay home alone, let alone wander the world alone.
- LocalH 3y agoThis is a modern invention. Kids of that age routinely explored the world on their own in the before time. Then social media happened, and everyone thinks that everyone else is a risk. Everyone thinks they're doing good when they call the cops upon seeing a child by themselves.
- M95D 3y agoI went to kindergarten alone every day at age 6. Almost everybody on my street did that. It was a 1 km walk. At age 7 I walked every day alone to school 2 km away and I remember it took exactly 25 minutes.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoI walked to school by myself starting at age 6. Everybody I knew did. Is the world more dangerous now than it was in the 1960s?