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Originally Posted by basschick
i'm 51 and grew up in a good middle class neighborhood, but when i was 7 or 10 years old, not a single kid my age was allowed to cross a street alone, play out of site of where their mom could see them by looking out the door or talk to strangers.
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See, and I'm 35, and when I was six, it was perfectly normal for me and most kids I knew to leave the apartment all by myself, cross the street to the small park and play there out of sight and without any parental supervision until it either got dark or (in summer) it was time to come home for supper. In the same vein, any child whose parents brought them to school and fetched them again after school every day would have been ridiculed as a pansy by their peers, and the parents decried as overbearing.
YMMV and all that jazz.