You're not only cranky but not in touch with todays news. No 5 yr old should be out alone ever! it's unthinkable in this day and age for anyone to allow a child to go off walking by themselves. I too would have had a 'mental breakdown' if it was my 5 yr old.
The days of your youth are over..our children are being snatched, sexually attacked and murdered.
"No 5 yr old should be out alone ever!"
Agreed! And forty years ago, when I was 5, I wasn't allowed out alone either. We did live in a big city, but bad things happen to people in all sorts of places.
When my daughter was in first grade I would walk her to school and wait until it opened. Every day there was this beautiful little girl, also in first grade (maybe it was even kindergarten) waiting alone by the gate. She must have been the first to arrive each day. This was in Jersey City, NJ. I thought her parents must have been out of their minds to leave her alone like that, every day.
It only takes about 30 seconds for tragedy to happen. Believe me. My cousin was snatched off the street, never to be seen or heard from again. And she was a grown woman, and a fine,upstanding person, not into any bad activities. So it can happen.
'You're not only cranky but not in touch with todays news. No 5 yr old should be out alone ever! it's unthinkable in this day and age for anyone to allow a child to go off walking by themselves. I too would have had a 'mental breakdown' if it was my 5 yr old. '
You are right. And if it was the mother who made the child walk to school, she'd be in jail on charges of child abuse and the boy would be with social workers. But when a school does it, they're quite innocent. 'Tis because they and the cops and the social workers are all part of the same secular humanist mindset that kids belong to the gov't and parents are there as caretakers only.
At what age are you going to let your child walk alone? 7, 9, 11 21, 45?
A 5 year old should be given some limited freedom. Let him/her go to the swings in the park, let him/her explore the neighborhood. Yes it is dangerous, but life is dangerous. Children need to grow.
The other day in Wal Mart, a little boy about 5 years old spotted me approaching him and his parents. He said under his breath "A stranger", and ran around his dads legs. I heard him and smiled. His dad seemed interested in what I was smiling about, and we struck up a conversation. I told him that his son had said "a stranger". Dad replied with pride "we have been teaching him about strangers".
At first I thought that was a good thing, but thinking about it, I fear for the tyke. He is growing up with a deep ingrained distrust of all strangers.
Years ago, my youngest (30 now) owned the neighborhood. The only person that was a stranger was somebody he hadn't met yet. Today, he is highly successful, outgoing, and friendly. If I had wrapped him in styrofoam as he was growing up, I am very sure he would be introverted today.
My 2 cents.
If we would begin the executions on these animals, we would have a world safer for the children. it's past due.
We live on a main street in my neighborhood. My kids don't play in the front yard without supervision. It's just too easy for a sicko to grab one of them and be gone in seconds.