Reply to Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

What is it that your kids think is so much fun about going to the park without an adult with them? 
[/quote]

They like being out on their own. They like being independent. They like being unsupervised. They like being able to make their own decisions. They like the feeling of being responsible for themselves.[/quote]

What is it about being unsupervised that they like so much? What do they do without an adult with them that they can't do with an adult?  Lots of bad things happened to kids in the old days when kids just ran around wild that wouldn't have happened if an adult were supervising.

[/quote]

What they like about being unsupervised is being unsupervised. Don't you like being unsupervised? I do.

And yes, bad things happened to kids in the old days when there wasn't constantly an adult supervising, but lots of good things happened too. The good things aren't newsworthy, of course. (NOT a leading news story: Yesterday Joe went into the woods to play and came home in time for supper.) My question is: what won't my kids learn if there is always an adult supervising?[/quote]

Can't you just wait until they are 10?[/quote]

And then what, release them into unsupervised life, with zero experience?

What makes 10 magic?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics