> and a parent understands dangers of the world that their young child literally can't comprehend As an adult I find that my perception of danger was actually

> and a parent understands dangers of the world that their young child literally can't comprehend As an adult I find that my perception of danger was actually much more correct as a child than the adults around me. They were, and are, paranoid and driven by moral panics. For some reason they were unable to comprehend that me walking a mile across an upper middle class suburb at 12 years old was perfectly safe, but I was. They feared edge case dangers like pedophiles and school shootings while us children made jokes about them. When there were a handful of shark attacks on the east coast and it made the news, the school banned students from swimming in the ocean on school trips. Driving for hours on the interstate was, of course, deemed safe as always.