On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:23:18 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx
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>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 02:41:45 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx
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>>> > wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:29:04 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx
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>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:52:13 -0400, jmcquown >
>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 7/21/2018 2:56 PM, wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:52:57 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> Yes, that is exactly true, I feel the same way with all the cameras when out
>>>>>>>>> in public. People born these days will never know the freedom we had as
>>>>>>>>> kids, I'm not saying it's a bad thing for them, but it's certainly not
>>>>>>>>> something I would choose.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Cheri
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All these 'helicopter' parents should be made to read the latest study
>>>>>>>> out which points out, no surprises, these poor kids arrive in their
>>>>>>>> mid-teens totally unable to make a decision for themselves. From play
>>>>>>>> dates on, these kids never experience life in the raw, must be really
>>>>>>>> tough on them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I find the idea of "play dates" is odd. Perhaps it makes sense if you
>>>>>>> live in a big city and don't have neighbors with kids of similar ages
>>>>>>> for yours to play with...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a control factor, that way your child only interacts with other
>>>>>> children YOU consider suitable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That?s not really the majority of cases. Play dates are generally only
>>>>> arranged for very young children, not yet school age or early school
>>>>> age?children who are too young to run around the neighborhood unsupervised.
>>>>
>>>> Good heavens!! Run around the neighbourhood unsupervised??? That
>>>> doesn't happen today! I happened to be in the area where we raised
>>>> our three, lovely summers day and I couldn't think what looked wrong
>>>> somehow. Then the penny dropped, back in our kids day there would
>>>> have been a pile of bikes on the front grass, there would have been
>>>> kids swimming and shrieking in the lake, probably a couple of dogs
>>>> running around with a group of kids. Not a sign of a kid, for all it
>>>> is still a prime area for parents, nice schools, safe roads, nice
>>>> houses etc.
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>>> There are kids and bikes all over my neighborhood. Regardless, play dates
>>> aren?t for the age 7+ crowd, they?re for preschoolers and kindergartners.
>>> I?m sure you can agree 3 year olds are too young to be outside
>>> unsupervised. I wasn?t talking about 10 year olds, for heaven?s sake.
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>> I was talking about school aged kids, they don't even walk to school
>> anymore, too dangerous. When I asked my granddaughter why my
>> greatgranddaughter was not out playing, she would have been around 6
>> then, she said 'It's different now, there are men in vans who could
>> grab them blah blah blah' - I asked her to name me one incident in the
>> Halifax/Dartmouth area of anyone grabbing a kid, she couldn't of
>> course, it's urban rumour.
>>
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>There was an incident here last fall where a 5 year old was taken from her
>bus stop, raped, and dumped back on the street corner afterward. I’m not
>sure they’ve caught the perpetrator yet. I wouldn’t consider myself a
>helicopter parent, but incidents like this do make me think twice about the
>potential situations I put my child in.
All of life is a chance, many things you can do, or can happen to you,
the only way to learn good decision making is to start early on with
smaller ones. If I lived in a high crime area, that might be
different but my kids were raised to have common sense and they made
it through as very whole human beings.
The worst example in our area was two sisters waiting at the bus stop
and a car was out of control and crashed through them, killing them.
It did surprise me somewhat that their mother promptly said she was a
christian so must forgive the young man, I would have cheerfully taken
him apart.