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Originally Posted by jammies
I used to walk to school, about 4 blocks, alone in Grade 1 and with my younger brother from Grade 2 onwards. Then, after school, we'd let ourselves in the house (nobody home 'till 5), then run back outside and around the field/playground, completely unsupervised. Now I walk past the playground in Sunalta near my place on the way home every day, and I have never - NEVER - seen a kid in there playing.
PS: Nothing bad ever happened to me despite my parents' neglect, and I made $5 every Friday from this nice old man who wanted me to pet his ferret. Weird thing was, he kept it in his pocket.
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I let me kids run free all summer. We back onto a green space with a path, and my kids run with 5 others, it's like a pack of dogs.
I agree that there is too much over parenting. You have to give you kids situations where they can make their own decisions and grow.
I remember listening to the CBC and they had a fella on that looked into the occurances of child abductions in the good old days (50's) compared to now. There was no significant difference in the number. The difference was in the media.