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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 51 and my youngest is in fifth grade. I don't sweat the small stuff. I'm a 1970s kid! I climbed 60-foot-tall trees to our fort when I was eight. I'm not going to care if my kid is four feet off the ground at age 10. It's all perspective. Other kids tell me I'm fun because I let them have an extra cookie. Live it up, kid![/quote]

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While I don't have a blanket prohibition against the free range parenting style, I don't find it cool or cute to be proud of that lifestyle. It also reminds me of another parent I know who brags about her child's tree climbing. Cool, I guess. But when that kid was 60 feet up in MY tree on MY property and I asked her to come down, the child was downright belligerent and the mom dismissed me. Uncool. [i]Repeated[/i] interactions like this with similar parents/kids make it hard for me not to see proud free range parents as disrespectful of boundaries, but I know there are exceptions.

And I give kids extra cookies, too. [/quote]

I actually think it is more common among older parents to give kids more freedom simply to the fact that they cannot keep up with them, don't have the same level of energy  as a 20 y.o. parent. Weather it is good or bad, this is  a different question. [/quote]

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