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ngdawg · 09-16-2008, 06:25 PM

I always walked to school-it took a half hour so it was probably a half-mile or more.
When my sister was 7, some perv tried to take her while she was walking home (this was in 1964) by saying "Your mother told me to give you a ride home." She yelled back, "Oh no she didn't!!" and ran the half mile home...and mom still didn't give us rides, just told us to walk together. But on any given day there were kids marching to and from school like mini-battalions. Safety in numbers, perhaps.

I saw Izzy on Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, where they were discussing the "dangers" kids face. Something like 115 kids a year are abducted by strangers, they said. That's incredible odds.

My cousins all grew up in Brooklyn. We'd head out, walk around, play in the streets and local parks while the adults visited upstairs and didn't come back until we got tired or bored. Goodness, we even went into elevators alone!!! In the projects!!

I admit I might be a bit overprotective. It's hard letting go. I didn't let my kids walk to school until the 5th grade and, since I was actually dropping them off at friends' before I headed to work, they may have gotten rides instead of walking. They were in 6th or 7th grade before I stopped picking them up. And no sooner do I stop getting them that my son gets jumped and beaten in the park on his way home.

Here I didn't care for them crossing a main highway and some punk kids became the danger.....
But they were always allowed to leave the house and go play with friends in the neighborhood-I encouraged it. Hell, it gave ME some peace and quiet. And now that they're 16, they, especially my daughter, just take off, walk to the malls or down the highway to meet friends. I worry a little, but try to remember I raised them, they should be ok....

This time of instant news has put fear in us. We hear of a child in Texas disappearing and think it will happen in our own town. We have access, thanks to the internet, to the locations of every criminal and seek them out (btdt). We have been inundated with "experts" telling us how we should protect our kids from those horrible monsters. They exist, no doubt, but instead or arming our kids with smarts(like my little sister in 1964), we shroud them in 2008.

09-16-2008, 06:25 PM	#11 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	I always walked to school-it took a half hour so it was probably a half-mile or more. When my sister was 7, some perv tried to take her while she was walking home (this was in 1964) by saying "Your mother told me to give you a ride home." She yelled back, "Oh no she didn't!!" and ran the half mile home...and mom still didn't give us rides, just told us to walk together. But on any given day there were kids marching to and from school like mini-battalions. Safety in numbers, perhaps. I saw Izzy on Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, where they were discussing the "dangers" kids face. Something like 115 kids a year are abducted by strangers, they said. That's incredible odds. My cousins all grew up in Brooklyn. We'd head out, walk around, play in the streets and local parks while the adults visited upstairs and didn't come back until we got tired or bored. Goodness, we even went into elevators alone!!! In the projects!! I admit I might be a bit overprotective. It's hard letting go. I didn't let my kids walk to school until the 5th grade and, since I was actually dropping them off at friends' before I headed to work, they may have gotten rides instead of walking. They were in 6th or 7th grade before I stopped picking them up. And no sooner do I stop getting them that my son gets jumped and beaten in the park on his way home. Here I didn't care for them crossing a main highway and some punk kids became the danger..... But they were always allowed to leave the house and go play with friends in the neighborhood-I encouraged it. Hell, it gave ME some peace and quiet. And now that they're 16, they, especially my daughter, just take off, walk to the malls or down the highway to meet friends. I worry a little, but try to remember I raised them, they should be ok.... This time of instant news has put fear in us. We hear of a child in Texas disappearing and think it will happen in our own town. We have access, thanks to the internet, to the locations of every criminal and seek them out (btdt). We have been inundated with "experts" telling us how we should protect our kids from those horrible monsters. They exist, no doubt, but instead or arming our kids with smarts(like my little sister in 1964), we shroud them in 2008.