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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Play in the neighborhood unattended?  I feel like I should always have him in my sight, but other moms in the neighborhood let their kids run around without being carefully watched.  Should he be monitored at all times?  [b]I feel like my primary job as a mom is to make sure he is safe[/b], and I am losing that control with him running around with the neighborhood kids.  He is 7 years old.[/quote]

I would state this slightly differently: my primary job as a mom is to try to make sure the risks my kids take are (1) at a level they are likely to handle successfully and (2) unlikely to have a lethal effect if I'm wrong about 1. So I wouldn't let a 4-year-old run around the neighborhood unsupervised at all, I would make sure a 7-year-old had a few key rules and was likely to obey them (checking in, staying within a general area, letting me know if he's going into someone's house), and I would give a 9 year old a higher level of freedom. My goal is to let my kids learn to manage risks and their own behavior, not to deep them as safe as possible at all moments.[/quote]

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