On Sunday, September 7, 2014 7:44:55 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 07:42:56 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
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> >On 9/7/2014 6:01 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> >> "MaryL" > wrote in message
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> >>> In addition to technology, I think parents today
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> >>> are so fearful that they drive children everywhere from a very young
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> >>> age--a real loss of independence, in my opinion. I used to ride my
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> >>> bicycle or horse to my grandparents' home in the summer, a distance of
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> >>> about 4 miles each way. Today, many people would claim that it is
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> >>> "neglect" if my mother did not keep her eyes on each child "every
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> >>> MaryL
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> >> I was just reading something in a magazine but can't remember which
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> >> one. It said that these days kids often reach their teens and have
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> >> never been away from their parents or some other adult.
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> >> I could get her to go into two businesses where we knew the
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> >> owners and she would shop in there for presents and such. But if I were
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> >> to sit outside of the drugstore and tell her to go in and buy something,
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> >> she would refuse. Terrified of some unknown thing that might possibly
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> >> happen to her.
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> >> I was also reading that the world now isn't really all that more
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> >> dangerous for kids than it was when we were kids but our perceptions of
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> >Kids are over protected in many cases. Recently a mother in NYC was
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> >taken to task for letting her son take the subway home alone When I was
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> >8, I'd take a bus, train, then trolly to go to my grandmothers house.
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> >Couple of years older, we'd take the same route even longer to center
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> >city Philadelphia.
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> >After school, we'd get on our bikes and be gone until dinner time.
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> >We thought nothing of it yet we are raising a generation of sissies.
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> Talking about my great granddaughter going out to play, my
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> granddaughter was telling me 'it's different now, kids are grabbed by
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> people from vans' etc etc. I asked her to name me ONE case of that
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> happening in either Halifax or Dartmouth, she couldn't. It's a myth.
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> The helicopter parenting has to end, the very worst aspect of it is
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> the parents arranging 'play dates' for their kids. How do they grow
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> up learning to judge other people for themselves ?? I heard one of
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> our university profs saying the other day he is sick and tired of
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> dealing with parents as opposed to students, even at that level they
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> still seek to live/order/control their kids lives. Poor kids ! I'm
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> not sorry I don't have much more time here

I agree 100%. I have told off a lot of folks who disagreed, and not
just on the internet. Folks who watch a lot of TV tend to be stupid.
What's especially fun to tell folks is that a child is far more likely
to be molested by a priest than a stranger.

--Bryan