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Originally Posted by bizaro86
My 3 year old lives taking the ctrain downtown. (Stampede, library, etc) and wants to know if he can do it by himself. To me, that suggests kids are naturally curious explorers, and if they aren't willing to take transit by themselves at 12 that is societies fault for pansification.
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Yeah there is a real social component here.
It's not that the kids don't know how to take the bus alone, it's if something wrong were to happen, he doesn't know how to ask someone for help. He's helpless.
I think when we were kids, if we got lost on the bus or riding our bikes somewhere, we'd know how to ask somehow for directions. But we were used to talking to people, neighbors, grannies, other kids etc.. Kids today, they don't talk to anybody.