Posted on 08/26/2014 7:37:21 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
Parents waiting in their front yards for the school bus, watching their kids, who are thirty feet away on the sidewalk, until they get on the bus.
And these are eight, nine year old kids, not toddlers.
We are truly raising a generation of paranoid little pansies.
Don’t get exercised. Pols are bunk.
Yup. I was wandering the woods and fields alone at 6 or 7 years old.
Nanny state silliness.
If modern-day parents could see some of the things we tots did unsupervised back in the Fifties, they’d have an instant coronary.
How about unsupervised teens like Mikey Brown gallivanting through the neighborhood unsupervised?
When I was 4 1/2, I walked to kindergarten by myself 8 blocks away. Never was a problem until I bumped into a dog who scared me. The owner drove me home. The owner was a friend of my mom’s.
Even at 6, I was going to school on my own, going to the park on my own, and generally exploring all over the place on foot and on my bike. I did not grow up in BFE out in the country. I grew up in Los Angeles in the 70’s.
I would be more inclined to raise the age limit to 19 in some parts of this country.
Insanity.
Teach them self defense, Teach them to have safety in numbers.
Run in a pack.
It is a proven fact that most Americans are too stupid to breathe. The re-election of Obama is proof. You get the government you, as a people deserve.
America is still too fat, dumb, and happy to take elections seriously and the democrats are busy importing ignorant, third-world socialists at the present time.
Just this morning I was telling a friend that when I was 10 my mother sent me downtown on a errand. Had to walk a few blocks to get a streetcar then walk a few blocks when I got downtown. My mother was far from nuts or irresponsible. Would I suggest somebody do that today? Not a chance.
Things were saner back then and many parents today tend to treat their children like babies.
Mom walked me to kindergarten on the first day at age 5, showed me the bad intersections, after that i was on my own and had a key to the house.
Put dinner on when I got home.
Parents waiting in their front yards for the school bus, watching their kids, who are thirty feet away on the sidewalk, until they get on the bus.
Speaking of school buses, I am just reminded of when I was a kid, our bus driver had one of those naked lady steering wheel handle accessories. . . .until my mother reported it.
They think pre-teens should not play outside unsupervised? That is insane. More than 68 percent of parents allow their 11 or 12 year olds play outside unsupervised. It would be funny watching all these parents out chasing their kids zooming past on their skateboards and bikes. This poll cannot be correct. Perhaps they just polled idiots and single folks who don’t want to deal with the kids on their street.
What we have is worse; perhaps a majority of parents - terrified into near insensibility by news media scaremongering - who have internalized standards for parental supervision of children that seem to me insane, and impossible to maintain.
Don’t get exercised. Pols are bunk.
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Yes. I only get heated when they report poll results by saying “most Americans”, instead of “most of the responders” to their stupid polls. ............Most Americans refuse to take part in phone polls.
The overwhelming majority of child molestation takes place within the home, by a relative or mommy's "boyfriend".
I wouldn't be in the least surprised to find out that kids are safer in the park.
You sir, have a point!!!!
Only the Government is capable of supervising children.
let the parents be parents
and LE and city official make the streets safe so the parents can be parents.
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