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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. I'm surprised at all of these responses - NP here. How far are you from FH metro? If anything pick him up There, although that is highly unnecessary to me. Though I am also a new yorker who began riding the bus and train by myself at 10 or 11 and by 13 I was going an hour each way on two different trains.

The trains are NOT deserted after rush hour (these posters just probably don't ride enough to know). You can tell him to avoid the first and last car, which are less full. Teach him exactly how to go and hell be fine.

I cannot believe how over-sheltered children are now. How on earth do you expect them to become self-sufficient? [/quote]

Me too. Until Etan Patz. That changed everything for my parents.

My children are younger, but I can't really imagine letting them ride the Metro by themselves. Then again, I see tons of kids getting off the Tenleytown metro each morning to go to school - I assume Deal? They must be 13 or younger?

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I am the pp you quoted. I don't mean to make light of any tragedy, but etan patz was 6, and this is why you try to prepare yourself and loved ones to be smart, secure responsible citizens. We cannot avoid all danger in life. This is how I feel. I think not allowing a thirteen year old to ride the metro alone, at least before ten pm, is too overprotective. Of course that is ones parenting choice.

OP, if you choose not to let him do this, please do not explain that metro is too unsafe or that he is not old enough- you don't want him to feel it is an inherently unsafe activity.

I'm the pp you quoted. Yeah.... Terrible things happen. I don't mean to make light of any tragedy. [/quote]

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