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Originally Posted by calf
It's interesting - on one hand, parents are getting a ton of criticism for being overprotective helicopter parents. On the other, if they provide perhaps a bit of freedom, or take their eyes off the kid for a second and they take off and it takes a few minutes to catch up, if something happens to go wrong, they are criticized for not keeping a super close eye on the child and letting something like this happen.
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Some people delude themselves into believing we can live in a perfectly safe world where the only way a child could be hurt of killed is if an adult is negligent. The rest of us are guilty of letting those people dictate our behaviour.