On 2018-03-21 11:57 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 3/21/2018 11:26 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

> If younger kids stray from the front of the house parents are charged
> with neglect. In MD, police investigated because kids walk home
> from school
> http://wjla.com/news/local/silver-sp...e-alone-112094
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> When I was 8, I could go to my grandparents house by taking a bus,
> train, then trolley. Today my parents would be arrested for letting
> me go. At 10 we rode our bikes across a mile long bridge to another
> state to visit a former class mate.

I was about that age when my mother drove me and my 5 year old brother
to Toronto and dropped us of off at the street car terminal in the west
end of city to go and visit with my grandparents who live up in what was
then the north east corner of the city. She had written down
instructions and telephone numbers in case we got into trouble.