While driving, I heard an author of an exciting new book interviewed on the radio. I admit I only heard about 8 minutes minus the ads.
The author advocated letting today’s kids run around all day long with the freedoms from the “safe sixties”. She cited several studies that proved her correct.
As I listened, I clenched the steering wheel. NOOOOO!
It wasn’t that great that my parents trusted me to disappear for half a day then, and it isn’t good at all today. Parents MUST KNOW where there children are at all times, forget statistics.
I can remember playing in the woods at age 12 just a mile from our home. My friend and I heard an unsettling rustling and rode our bikes away with our neck hairs standing on end. Articulate as I was and as close as I was to my mother, it did not occur to me to ever tell her of our “scare”.
For this author to advocate kids without adult interaction and to “trust” them is insidious. The older kids are, the more they need a parent there to listen and download.
Free range chicken – I’m for ‘em!
Free range kids – not at all.
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