What if they live on U St and the park is by the club?
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have you been to the club lately…turning into Bethesda
now if they had to walk to Echostage…
now if they had to walk to Echostage…
grateful wrote:I see your point. Adult supervision is needed to ensure the kids don't stop by Ben's Chili Bowl and eat something that turns them into a hamplanet.
What if they live on U St and the park is by the club?
killsaly wrote:Space wrote:The term. The concept is fine. But saying free range makes me think of cattle. I think kids should be able to walk to the neighborhood park. killsaly wrote:
Free range parenting is one of the dumbest terms of this millennium.
Is that your comment on the term or the ideas themselves? If the former, do you have a better name? If the latter, why?
I myself don't care one way or another beyond what i already stated, just interested in hearing opinions.
At what age?
15
Space wrote:killsaly wrote:Space wrote:The term. The concept is fine. But saying free range makes me think of cattle. I think kids should be able to walk to the neighborhood park. killsaly wrote:
Free range parenting is one of the dumbest terms of this millennium.
Is that your comment on the term or the ideas themselves? If the former, do you have a better name? If the latter, why?
I myself don't care one way or another beyond what i already stated, just interested in hearing opinions.
At what age?
depends on the kid, the distance and the park itself(is it the kind of park frequented by junkies?)
but I think 9 is old enough to go to the local park with friends
I do think the buddy system is always a good layer of security
Speaking of terrible, leave your child unattended decisions: Fat pork-orc in Oklahoma is too lazy and selfish to bring their 1 year old into Walmart with them then pretends to cry in hopes of avoiding prosecution.
killsaly wrote:
15
I might go as low as 11 or 12. I think by fifth grade she'll be old enough to walk the few blocks home after school on her own . No need to walk t oa park, since she can play on the playground at her school.
At age 9, I think I can provide a better security system than her buddies.
Sidehatch wrote:Space wrote:killsaly wrote:Space wrote:The term. The concept is fine. But saying free range makes me think of cattle. I think kids should be able to walk to the neighborhood park. killsaly wrote:
Free range parenting is one of the dumbest terms of this millennium.
Is that your comment on the term or the ideas themselves? If the former, do you have a better name? If the latter, why?
I myself don't care one way or another beyond what i already stated, just interested in hearing opinions.
At what age?
depends on the kid, the distance and the park itself(is it the kind of park frequented by junkies?)
but I think 9 is old enough to go to the local park with friends
I do think the buddy system is always a good layer of security
Living in the suburbs, I'm more worried about sexual predators than junkies. They're more of them, and they're more likely interested in her than a junkie would be.
My parents had me walking ~0.5 miles to and from school every day in 2nd grade. I turned out fine. No one diddled me. When people ask me to show them on a doll where I was touched, I tell them nowhere, because I wasn't.
Julian, wrote:
My parents had me walking ~0.5 miles to and from school every day in 2nd grade. I turned out fine. No one diddled me. When people ask me to show them on a doll where I was touched, I tell them nowhere, because I wasn't.
http://www.abc2news.com/news/state/police-serve-search-warrant-in-investigation-of-1975-slayings-of-lyon-sisters
Julian, wrote:
My parents had me walking ~0.5 miles to and from school every day in 2nd grade. I turned out fine. No one diddled me. When people ask me to show them on a doll where I was touched, I tell them nowhere, because I wasn't.
I was definitely riding my bike around the neighborhood at the same age. Kids need to be able to go out and find out what's wrong and what is right. You can tell a kid a million times to be careful but that kid won't be careful until it finally falls down and scrapes its knee and learns for his or herself.
Space wrote:10 people a year drown to death in a bucket. Do you not let your kid have water unchaperoned?Julian, wrote:
My parents had me walking ~0.5 miles to and from school every day in 2nd grade. I turned out fine. No one diddled me. When people ask me to show them on a doll where I was touched, I tell them nowhere, because I wasn't.
http://www.abc2news.com/news/state/police-serve-search-warrant-in-investigation-of-1975-slayings-of-lyon-sisters
It's funny that a majority of people commenting here this afternoon on "what kids need" are neither kids nor parents.
Space wrote:
It's funny that a majority of people commenting here this afternoon on "what kids need" are neither kids nor parents.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
(2) Everyone commenting on the matter was at one time a kid and therefore probably have some thoughts on what did and did not work for them as a child.
I mean, while watching a baseball game on TV, do you go, "well, isn't it circumspect that none of these announcers are active MLB players? How funny they would feel qualified to comment on baseball!"
Julian, wrote:Space wrote:
It's funny that a majority of people commenting here this afternoon on "what kids need" are neither kids nor parents.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
(2) Everyone commenting on the matter was at one time a kid and therefore probably have some thoughts on what did and did not work for them as a child.
I think that's true for any adult who has yet to have kids. And then some of those thoughts change AGAIN when you actually become a parent, and look at it from the eyes of the adult responsible for the wellbeing of the child, rather than through the eyes of the child.
Julian, wrote:
I mean, while watching a baseball game on TV, do you go, "well, isn't it circumspect that none of these announcers are active MLB players? How funny they would feel qualified to comment on baseball!"
Just as I laugh at people when they compare taking care of their pets to childraising, I scratch my head at comparing something as relatively simple as baseball to something as complex as parenthood.
Statistically, kids are vastly safer now than they were in the 70s. What's changed is TV news, which demands that you to be scared out of your mind 24/7/365.
beets wrote:
Statistically, kids are vastly safer now than they were in the 70s. What's changed is TV news, which demands that you to be scared out of your mind 24/7/365.
Which goes to show that parents are doing a better job supervising their kids today than they were in the 70's.