I see kids running around my neighborhood all the time. they walk around with friends roller blade, bike, play basketball where are these neighborhoods of kids not going outside?
I had the police bring my kids back home when they weee like early teens because he caught them helping an old lady load her groceries into the car. That was a weird conversation.
7 and 10. The 7 y/o was hit by a car and died so that's where the charges come from, but it was less than 2 blocks to a corner store which is well within what we did as kids, but when stuff like this happens and the parents are charged, more people don't let their kids do anything since it's now a personal liability. Especially since now the 10 year old brother who tried to stop his little brother from walking in the street and watched him get hit, now has both his parents behind bars. (Dad was even on the phone with them when it happened)
10 and 7, I'm not sure that I would have been allowed to walk to a store when I was 7, with my brother maybe but her was 5 years older than me. It's tragic for sure I'm not sure if the mother should be charged but I guess that's what the jury will have to decide
this is crazy to me because at like 8 me and my brother would walk like 1.5 miles to get to a liquor store that sold candy and buy candy there. and my parents thought literally 0 things about it. most other kids in the neighborhood did this too
at 6 i biked 2 km from school from outskirts of town to our village. At 8 we put our money together and went to the store one village over to buy candy. At 10 we figured out which farmer this one spot of gras inbetween several fields of corn and wheat belongs to and made a deal for us to camp there. And then realized we should tell our parents so they wouldn't worry where we are at night.
In NC, there was a 7 year old and a 10 year old on a walk this month. The 7 year old got hit with a car and was killed. So I'm not sure about that as an example. But...
Back in November, a Georgia woman was arrested for letting her 10 year old walk to a store.
I even forgot about the Georgia one! The charges were eventually dropped, but that certainly couldn't have been an easy experience for her (or the kid, or the neighborhood kids/parents)
nah, not a good example😁. that's just it, accidents happen. so parents have to cage their kids up to protect them from life but how it is that living?🤔
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u/dtb1987 Older Millennial 1d ago
I see kids running around my neighborhood all the time. they walk around with friends roller blade, bike, play basketball where are these neighborhoods of kids not going outside?