I’d ride my bike for miles, even downtown and back..............how times have changed..............
“I’d ride my bike for miles, even downtown and back..”
yep. See my post 16. Although your post reminds me of perhaps why my parents gave me so much freedom. My mom, twice a week, would get done with school on outskirts of town, and ride the trolley into downtown Minneapolis for her violin lesson. Had to make a transfer. Afterwards, and dark, she would take the bus to where her dad worked, and would drive home with him. She started doing that when she was 3rd or 4th grade, about 1928 I suppose.
And if someone says “well times have changed....”
She had the story of how she and her two older sisters were walking home from school through an old gravel pit. A guy flashed them. They ran as fast as they could back through the woods. When they got home they told my grandparents, who called the police.
They gave a description of the guy and his car. The police were on the lookout already and found him later that day in the area. They brought my mom and aunts in to the lineup (all grade school girls).
He had raped and murdered three girls previously.
At six?
I live in a major city, but reading the news, it doesn’t matter much these days where you live.
There are sex offenders out there who focus on children. There’s no chance I would allow a six year old to play 150 yards from home with no supervision.
Even if I was standing on the front porch watching the kid, it would take me time to get there. By then he would be gone.
If we’re talking about kids 10-14 years of age, as long as there are decent older kids participating, sure, let them run around. It’s part of growing up. Six? Nope.