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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here - some other examples that I’ve had people express horror over (to be clear this isn’t some weird “look how cool and relaxed I am” thing - I wish I did think through these things more
- letting my 2yo eat nuts and other similar snacks in the car (how would I know if he’d choked)
- letting them (4yo/2yo) run holding big sharp sticks
- letting them 3yo climb out of passenger side back of van before I was out of car. He started walking into parking lot 
- letting 3yo scoot around a little park at the end of our block where I can’t see him (he loops around and comes back after a minute or 2, sometimes gets distracted by rocks or whatever, but I’d have no way of knowing if he just kept going in our very urban area)

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also as another example, my now 5yo ran into one of his K classmates the second week of school at soccer. we are new to the school and i'd never met the kid or family. the kids started talking about a playdate and it didn't work out that day schedule wise but i would have 100% let him go have a drop off playdate at their house that day where i'd just met the parents and only talked to them for 5 min.  My sister was absolutely horrified that i'd essentially send my 5yos to a total strangers house. and yes, now that i think through it that does seem risky...but worries like that just don't occur to me.  my thought is "oh this is so great he's making a new friend at his school where my worry was he'd struggle....yay....lets get the playdate scheduled asap!!!"[/quote]

I don't know how you become more paranoid :) I do have friends who I think are overly lax, for example: not thinking it was a big deal that their 3 year old wandered off and climed into their car on a hot afternoon-they realized where he was about 10 minutes later. They just laughed it off but all I could think about was what if the kid had fallen asleep and then overheated. Kid under 5 swimming in a lake pretty far out with a parent watching from the shore. Same kid fooling around near a big pot of boiling water at a cookout. Maybe you just need to take a minute and think about what could go wrong and then about likelihood. I think many of us are too nervous but it's all about balance.[/quote]

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