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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's safe in the US, we are just afraid to let them do it.[/quote] Yup. By far the most dangerous thing about sending your Kindergarten on a (close-by, not crossing interstate highway) errand is the danger of the neighbors calling CPS.[/quote] Yep. A class series of books on child development is the "Your ___ Year Old" series, published in the late 70s. In the 5 or 6 year old book, they lay out the basic "school readiness" indicators. One of those is that the child be able to run a short errand. Their overall description of a typical 5 yr old also notes that a 5 yr old is ready to cross the street by himself and run a short errand in the neighborhood. Our children are not suddenly less capable than they used to be. We (our whole society, not just parents) are just much more paranoid.[/quote]
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