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Reply to "Looking back, when did things change? When did we stop letting kids wander freely outside?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the shift happened when we stopped knowing our neighbors / living close to family. I also think parents today have so little bandwidth leftover for actual parenting that we don't go outside with our kids, play with them, etc. [/quote] But I wasn't playing with my parents back then either. My mom was inside watching General Hospital while we were roaming the neighborhood, biking up to the convenience store to buy candy, etc. I think there are some streets in my neighborhood that do have a lot of kids of similar age and they all hang out. We don't really have that on my street and I can't imagine just turning my 7yo loose like I was. One of his friends lives down the street but the parents aren't keen on someone knocking on the door to see if Larlo can play so that's that, even then I have to contact the parent to arrange a playdate.[/quote]
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