"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On 3/21/2018 11:26 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> Parents also keep a tight leash on their kids these days. The kids get
>> bored. We had bicycles and backpacks, so we went off on long hikes or
>> bicycle rides. We either came back for lunch or we packed a lunch, and
>> we had to be back for supper. Later on I had to be back for my paper
>> route. My neighour used to drive her kids to catch the school but... at
>> the end of their driveway, and she would drive down and wait for the bus,
>> even when they were in high school. Lucky them that they did not have to
>> walk that 125 yards.
>>
>
> 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
>
> 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.


Yes, at 9 (me) and 11 (brother) we were at the river, running high bluffs
every day in the summer. Now, we laugh and say we wonder what our parents
could have been thinking, but that was pretty much the norm in the mid 50's.

Cheri