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Yeah, also in Northern Europe. Here in Estonia kids as young as 5 years old even go to kindergarten on their own. They take a bus and are just fine. Seems to me
by askonomm 2y ago
Yeah, also in Northern Europe. Here in Estonia kids as young as 5 years old even go to kindergarten on their own. They take a bus and are just fine. Seems to me the helicopter parenting is mostly a thing in the U.S.
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- Cumpiler69 2y agoBecause in the US parents can get arrested if their children go out alone. It's a failure on their laws. And of their infrastructure where everyone wants to have their own suburban kingdom with large back yard, swimming pool, garage for two SUVs and workshop. Americans don't like living in small apartments like Europeans and Asians so this is what they get.
- 15155 2y agoI grew up in the US with parents that had a suburban kingdom, large back yard, swimming pool, garage for three SUVs, and workshop: I walked to, waited for, and rode the bus to kindergarten. "This is what they get" is false causation, these things have been present for decades. Helicopter parenting, liability for walking around alone, special snowflake treatment are all newly-introduced ideas.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoThe shift from roaming to restriction took place over generations and occurred unevenly. A few generations ago, the trend was that US kids had a broad range of appealing places to roam and were generally free to do so. Presently the US trend is that kids have few if any appealing places to go. And should they roam anyway, they and their parents risk legal (and increasingly permanent) consequences.
- shiroiushi 2y agoYou must be quite young if you had SUVs when you were growing up. They didn't become popular until the late 1990s. They basically didn't exist at all in the 1980s or before; people had station wagons back then.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoWe did have Suburbans, Broncos and a Ram thing that was closed in. Not a ton of them but they were out there.