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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
Lessons from ‘The Goonies,’ and from the loss of unsupervised time for kids
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mepage%2Fstory
maybe I am too old, but when I was a kid, we would spend all day outside playing with other kids, our parents would have to drag us in at night. We got into all sort of trouble, like toboganning down a steep tight run betweens trees that ended at a house where you had to veer sharply to keep from running into a wall, going up a 3 story cliff overlooking a road, dropping manhole covers into the sewers, etc. I took public transit to school when I was 8, when my 6 year old brother joined, I was put in "charge" of him.
Amazingly, we all survived, none of my friends ever got hurt and we all grew up into normal adults.
It really makes me wonder what the current over-protected/coddled generation will turn into.
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
My early years experiences are not too different to yours but having been a LEO and witnessed much first hand later in life I think it hard to answer your question definitively....society and the world have changed so much....not all for the worse but certainly not all for the better either.
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Same here. I built a fort on an island about 2 miles from home, and went 6-7 miles into the woods to trap raccoons and shoot squirrels. When I was dropped off in the city at my cousin's house, we would bike anywhere we wanted, all the way across town (small town, about 12,000 people). Most of my childhood was unsupervised. I think that's where our generation gets our independence and self-reliance.