Yup. My Mom used to do so with me and my sister when she went shopping. This was from the time I was around 7 and my sister was 5.
It sure beat having to go it the store with her. She wouldn’t let us look at toys or buy anything. AND, while we were in the car, we got to bother people walking by.
The modern world is making special little snowflakes out of our kids.
>>The modern world is making special little snowflakes out of our kids.
People fall into the trap of letting the 24/7 news industry localize every single event. So, when a child gets snatched in a state 1500 miles away, the local news everywhere makes it into a local story and weak-minded parents begin to believe that the child was snatched from THEIR local grocery store and the kid went to their kids’ elementary school.
This is the basic driver of the snowflake generation.
Remember when many of us were “latchkey kids” who rode the bus home from elementary school, walked from the bus stop to the house, let ourselves in, and did chores and played until the parents got home at 5?
But now, the motivation for the parents of snowflakes is, “what would people think of ME if my kid got hurt?” So, they won’t let their kids be kids. They can’t explore, have adventures, get cuts, maybe even break a bone in the pursuit of having an awesome childhood.
Now, they wrap them up in bubble wrap, walk the kids on leashes, and never let them out of their sight.