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Free Range Parenting: How Letting your Kids Walk to the Park Can Get You in Big Trouble.

 
 
 
I walked my kindergarteners the 4-5 blocks to school and they walked home with older siblings or neighbor kids. First graders on up could walk by themselves but generally there were multiple kids walking to and from school. Safe residential neighborhoods. Kids had been taught how to look for cars, basic safety.

By 5 they could go next door if I knew three was someone home and they'd be welcome. Often phone calls between houses on our block to ask if kid could come over. By 10 or so, they could go with a friend to the library or convenience store or to a friends house that was some blocks away--under a mile probably. Or to the post office to mail a letter and by 12, to the movie theater. Also biking along bike paths.

I know that there are plenty of neighborhoods where that isn't so safe. And that is a big shame.
 
Toni said:
I walked my kindergarteners the 4-5 blocks to school and they walked home with older siblings or neighbor kids. First graders on up could walk by themselves but generally there were multiple kids walking to and from school. Safe residential neighborhoods. Kids had been taught how to look for cars, basic safety.

By 5 they could go next door if I knew three was someone home and they'd be welcome. Often phone calls between houses on our block to ask if kid could come over. By 10 or so, they could go with a friend to the library or convenience store or to a friends house that was some blocks away--under a mile probably. Or to the post office to mail a letter and by 12, to the movie theater. Also biking along bike paths.

I know that there are plenty of neighborhoods where that isn't so safe. And that is a big shame.
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Ya know what's missing?

Nosy old women in the window.

Nothing makes a neighborhood safer than nosy old women in the window.

Those old women don't miss anything and, at least in my neighborhood, if they saw someone getting out of hand, they would grab the nearest thing to hand and chase a man twice their size a good four blocks.
 
AthenaAwakened said:
Those old women don't miss anything and, at least in my neighborhood, if they saw someone getting out of hand, they would grab the nearest thing to hand and chase a man twice their size a good four blocks.
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They'd better watch out now that ex NYPD, ex LAPD, Bill Bratton is back at the helm in Neuw Yorak Citee

When two LAPD officers arrived, Lopez was being restrained by several onlookers, but the officers, unsure who he was, told them to let him go. They say Lopez began swinging the broom, ignoring their demands for him to drop it, and made a swipe which nearly hit one of them on the head. Officer Neil Goldberg, 30, opened fire, shooting Lopez dead with nine bullets.

One year later, the DA's office cleared Officer Goldberg. More remarkably, its investigators concluded that a broom could be a deadly weapon. An LAPD investigation produced similar results. Officer Goldberg was not disciplined for the shooting, though he was marked down for extra training - in the use of his nightstick.
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thebeave said:
You mean this?

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No....just, No.
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No I mean like time when the riots started after Dr. King was shot and Mrs. Connolly was trying desperately to fit a neighborhood full of children into her car so she could get us out of the city and to her house in the Virginia Beach. I mean like the time Mayfield tried to set his Doberman on one of the Stewart boys and Mrs Grace can across the street with her pistol in her hand and told Mayfield to get his dog and himself back the house before the bad thing happened. I mean like when John-John got hit by the car that then sped off and how Mrs. Quick and Mrs. Williams both got the license number of the car and then tended to the broken boy until the ambulance came.

That is what I meant. When we lived in neighborhoods and not planned communities. When we had neighbors and not strangers down the street who disappear into cars in the morning and into houses at night.
 
Ah,the good old days.Most of the parents in my hood were WW2 vets.Everyone knew everybody.We had two parents and 40 supervisors.50 years later I am sure my home town is not the same.
But,were i live now is more like that than most places in the USA.Kids walk to school all the time,even on real snowy days.At 14 I bought my own bike with money I earned picking crops.I road that bike everywhere.As long as I was home for dinner all was good.
 
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