On 2014-09-07 7:42 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> 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.

I remember being taken to the west end of Toronto to catch a street car
to my grandparent's house in the east end of the city. I was 8 and my
little brother was 6. We had instructions for the transfers we had to make.

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


Weekends and summer holidays we were given a good breakfast and sent out
to play. Bicycle hikes were popular and we went for miles. We were
supposed to come home for lunch, or my mother would pack a lunch for us.


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


My nephews kids were not allowed to go to the park alone, and the park
was across the street. It is ironic because when that nephew was younger
he went to Africa for a couple years. When my son was 19 he went to
Africa for a year to work for his cousin.