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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]On the other hand, there are a lot of things that kids can't do because they have never had to do it.

Six-year-olds did used to be able to do this. Now (you say) they can't. What changed?[/quote]

I don't know "what changed" because in the neighborhood I grew up in, they couldn't.  Kids started being able to go places on their own around 3rd grade, which seems right to me.  [/quote]

How old are you? I'm 47. I'm guessing you're younger than I am. In the neighborhood I grew up in, when I grew up, kindergarteners went to school by themselves and/or with siblings. (You weren't allowed to ride your bike to school by yourself until second or third grade.) If your mother had walked to school with you, everybody would have laughed at you for being a baby.[/quote]

I am 54.  At six, I was walking to school (eight blocks) by myself or with siblings.  In the summer, I rode my bike to the park to participate in the rec program there.  At 7/8, I was riding to the town center to run an errand for my mother, stopping at the library on the way home.

The only thing that has changed is the parenting approach.

Crime rates are in fact lower than they were when I was a child.[/quote]

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