Are your kids bored in the suburbs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids don't get bored in the suburbs. But they do get into trouble of the sort that most parents will never know about. And parents who think "not MY kids" are in denial. Most end up fine in the end, though -- like kids everywhere.

I got bored as hell in the suburbs and that is why I did drugs. It was boring before the drugs and boring after the high came down.

All the drugs did something to your critical thinking skills.

It was pot, so no. Not long-term at least. I’m curious which of those two short sentences led you to think I have poor critical thinking skills. Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, pot can alter your brain. most people don't do enough for it to be noticeable, but it does happen

[Anonymous]

I grew up in a suburb 40 minutes from Penn Station on the train. My class was probably split between kids so hyper involved with school and activities that there was no time to get bored VS those who didn't care much about school or getting into a top college who did spend more time with drugs and partying and complaining about how boring our town was.

It wasn't really until senior year of high school, though, that kids from either group were really allowed to go into the city on our own. Some kids did sneak into the city earlier than that, but more often they would go to the local park or woods to get high rather than nothing to catch the train somewhere.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Westport CT and found it painfully boring. The part of town where I lived required a minimum of 2 acres of land per house and there were no sidewalks and streets were narrow (and cars were huge) so I could really only safely walk to about 10 nearby houses and none of those homes had kids I was friends with (or even had kids anywhere near my age). I was a ~3 mile bike ride from a single corner store and everything else was a minimum of a 15 min drive. the train station to NYC was on the other end of town and the train was expensive (but I did start going into NYC with friends at some point in high school).

That said, I think living in Greenwich walking distance from the Avenue would have been much different/better. So just make sure you are patient and don't settle or get sucked in by a beautiful house on the edges of Westport or Weston (or someplace similar) in the middle of nowhere.