On 9/7/2014 6:01 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "MaryL" > wrote in message
> ...

>> In addition to technology, I think parents today
>> are so fearful that they drive children everywhere from a very young
>> age--a real loss of independence, in my opinion. I used to ride my
>> bicycle or horse to my grandparents' home in the summer, a distance of
>> about 4 miles each way. Today, many people would claim that it is
>> "neglect" if my mother did not keep her eyes on each child "every
>> minute."
>> MaryL
>

> I was just reading something in a magazine but can't remember which
> one. It said that these days kids often reach their teens and have
> never been away from their parents or some other adult.

>
> I could get her to go into two businesses where we knew the
> owners and she would shop in there for presents and such. But if I were
> to sit outside of the drugstore and tell her to go in and buy something,
> she would refuse. Terrified of some unknown thing that might possibly
> happen to her.
>
> I was also reading that the world now isn't really all that more
> dangerous for kids than it was when we were kids but our perceptions of
> it is.

Kids are over protected in many cases. Recently a mother in NYC was
taken to task for letting her son take the subway home alone When I was
8, I'd take a bus, train, then trolly to go to my grandmothers house.
Couple of years older, we'd take the same route even longer to center
city Philadelphia.

After school, we'd get on our bikes and be gone until dinner time.

We thought nothing of it yet we are raising a generation of sissies.