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Silent3

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8. When I was off playing on my own as a kid it would have made no difference...

Thu Aug 21, 2014, 11:26 PM

Aug 2014

...if my parents were working or not at the time. It's not like cell phones existed back them to call them at either home or work. All that mattered is that at least one of my parents would be home when I got home for dinner.

While I support more and better access to preschool and day care, I'm not sure how much those issues apply here, since what we're talking about is not being so afraid of kids having some unsupervised time, not finding institutional supervision to replace parental supervision.

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Poll: Most Americans Want to Criminalize Pre-Teens Playing Unsupervised [View all] Silent3 Aug 2014 OP

Never had any children. chrisstopher Aug 2014 #1

Another glaring reason I'm not like "most Americans". n/t cheapdate Aug 2014 #2

Ditto. Blue_In_AK Aug 2014 #4

Then we need to open pre school and day care facilities WhiteTara Aug 2014 #3

I'm beginning to think a lot of parents belong in them. Warpy Aug 2014 #7

When I was off playing on my own as a kid it would have made no difference... Silent3 Aug 2014 #8

Me too. blueamy66 Aug 2014 #25

Me Three. We never thought it strange or scary to "Go off on our own" @ 10 years old. BlueJazz Aug 2014 #30

Bikes, skateboarding, swimming in irrigation ditches. blueamy66 Aug 2014 #31

Or seatbelts!! n/t jen63 Aug 2014 #35

How about hanging in the space below the back window? blueamy66 Aug 2014 #37

Yeah that too! jen63 Aug 2014 #42

Did it all tne time. blueamy66 Aug 2014 #46

Oh me too!! jen63 Aug 2014 #48

That's sad and pathetic. Comrade Grumpy Aug 2014 #5

The poor kids, stuck in their own backyards Warpy Aug 2014 #6

A lot of kids don't have a backyard BrotherIvan Aug 2014 #22

Part of it is guilt over working too much Warpy Aug 2014 #55

Fucking helicopter parents. n/t X_Digger Aug 2014 #9

And think about how fucked up their kids will be lunasun Aug 2014 #11

Part of it is being forced on to them... Hooked_n_Looped Aug 2014 #27

Well, the law would be prompted by helicopter parents bugging their legislators. n/t X_Digger Aug 2014 #33

You have no idea jen63 Aug 2014 #36

24 hour/day sensationalistic news has warped people's sense of safety. Lex Aug 2014 #10

Those 1970's cop shows did not help either! mrdmk Aug 2014 #54

12yr olds ! Wtf i asked one that made a comment about our kids going to the community pool lunasun Aug 2014 #12

I don't think my mom ever took me to the community pool Art_from_Ark Aug 2014 #13

12 yrs old means 6th or 7th grade. Will they follow them around in high school? The lunasun Aug 2014 #14

Very much agree BrotherIvan Aug 2014 #23

I've got too words for that mother--NORMAN BATES bklyncowgirl Aug 2014 #49

Wow. I would never let my 5 year old go to a pool by himself joeglow3 Aug 2014 #15

I didn't go by myself when I was 5 Art_from_Ark Aug 2014 #18

The OP survey was not about 5 yr old s lunasun Aug 2014 #32

We jumped fences and swam in neighbors' pools blueamy66 Aug 2014 #38

ironically, LadyHawkAZ Aug 2014 #16

Good grief teenagebambam Aug 2014 #17

Tell me, raven mad Aug 2014 #19

Most Americans are (mistakenly) convinced that crime rates are higher now than in the past Recursion Aug 2014 #20

Media has the public whipped up into a predator panic davidn3600 Aug 2014 #21

It happened back then... blueamy66 Aug 2014 #26

The odds of it are still lower than back then though... Hooked_n_Looped Aug 2014 #29

Don't agree. blueamy66 Aug 2014 #40

We do have crime statistics from back then... Hooked_n_Looped Aug 2014 #45

And those stats are accurate? blueamy66 Aug 2014 #47

Well if you are just going to declare them liars... Hooked_n_Looped Aug 2014 #52

Show me the stats. blueamy66 Aug 2014 #56

Yep. Same mentality that justifies trashing the Constitution to "protect" us. woo me with science Aug 2014 #39

The article didn't say, but I wonder if the results were different ... surrealAmerican Aug 2014 #24

Americans have become soft, weak minded creatures. Katashi_itto Aug 2014 #28

This country has lost its collective mind ellie Aug 2014 #34

Yep. blueamy66 Aug 2014 #41

We are programmed, just as surely as North Korea is programmed. woo me with science Aug 2014 #44

People think the world is full of predators treestar Aug 2014 #43

The fear campaigns have worked TransitJohn Aug 2014 #50

Yes that's a great idea. Let's reserve prison cells for kids as early as possible. Initech Aug 2014 #51

In my town, it's all group play and organized sports. Tracer Aug 2014 #53

It's getting so the country isn't even WORTH TRYING to save FiveGoodMen Aug 2014 #57

Growing up these days is different Algernon Moncrieff Aug 2014 #58