I guess she’d have a heart attack if she knew how far from home I used to travel. No cell phones back then.<<<
Me, too. When I was 10, we ranged far and wide in the area, riding our bikes and playing wherever we found something interesting. I realize times were different then, but all the kids in our group survived, somehow.
Most of the Moms were stay at home, and they all glanced out to see where we were headed. But when we went AWOL from the block, nobody sent out a posse or called the cops. We were usually down in the ditch looking for tadpoles or over at the last vestige of earlier times, a cornfield, where we could reenact endless scenarios.
My youngest grandsons don’t have anywhere near the freedom I had as a kid. It’s sad, and the government needs to butt out unless there is true neglect or abuse. Good Grief!
Chino State Prison for Men (Go fighting felons!) was on the outskirts of town, yet we had little to worry about back then. The police were mostly ex-military and drove my dad batty trying to get him to work for them.
I used to leave the house after breakfast on my bike with my .22 bolt action rifle and be gone all day at 10 years old in 1970.
Never got in trouble,or shot anybody until I went in the military.
I turned out alright. My boys turned out alright except they had atv’s to ride and 10-22’s. Thank God we lived in the country.
My baby girl could strip and reassemble an AK at 8 and still likes them better than AR-15’s She’s currently a Capt. in the USMC.
At 11 she got her 1st deer. 1st day of archery season she shot an 8 pointer with my 7mm Mag from the kitchen window about dawn.
I made her dress it out. She didn’t bat an eye. Then I changed the sheets. I’m a horrible parent I guess.