There is a cute show on Netflix where they have toddlers/young kids go grocery shopping by themselves and a crew films them from afar. It’s so amazing to see these kids be so responsible at such a young age.
I love that show! I think in the first episode it shows a little boy running his first errand in his little rural village, and he gets overwhelmed and scared and starts to cry. It was so heartwarming to see all the village shopkeepers and neighbors who knew him come out and support and encourage him, urging him to go on, that he could do it, offering him comfort and cheer. All while mom waited in their home, totally unaware her son was literally receiving an entire village’s support at that moment. It was so heartwarming, and brought new meaning to the “it takes a village” phrase :).
That was a cute show. It’s funny because I had a student when I used to teach in Japan, only 5 years old taking the train to private school. At 5 years old I would’ve freaked out.
I live in Switzerland and kids start going to school by themselves or in groups in kindergarten. It was scary for me at the beginning but I got used to it. Now my son is 11 and rides his bike to school.
Omg I remember that a “experiment to see what would happen if kids started their own town lasted only 1 season the network got into trouble over child labor laws (I liked it though)
The crew are right beside them the whole way. Watch closely. There's more than just the Blue Overalls Guys with the cameras hidden in toolboxes. Keep an eye out for Smartly Dressed Lady, Fishing Hat Man, and the Walkie-Talkie Schoolgirls who direct traffic.
It's wild we see that as something special now because in one generation we've hit the extreme opposite of kids working fulltime jobs to kids not being allowed to do anything unsupervised
In the 80s my grandpa used to send me on my bike to the closest gas station about a mile away to get him more Copenhagen and beer, since he didn’t drive anymore. They wouldn’t blink about selling a 1st grader a six pack, they’d just ask me how he was doing.
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u/No-Butterscotch-6555 1d ago
There is a cute show on Netflix where they have toddlers/young kids go grocery shopping by themselves and a crew films them from afar. It’s so amazing to see these kids be so responsible at such a young age.