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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm reading Free Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children  by Leonore Skenazy that talks about this very issue.  She makes a very persuasive agreement that children are actually statistically safer today and a little freedom makes a real difference to our children.[/quote]

Agree.  I am not worried about stranger abductions.  Those are so few and the peds---those freaks are generally somebody your child knows.  The stats on anything like that happening...I would win the powerball first.

That said--the only thing that freaks me is our urban area does get some high speed cars cutting threw.  However, from the time my kids could walk we talk about don't cross when the light first turns green STILL look and make sure the drive makes eye contact.  The importance of looking both ways---stopping at the corner and waiting for us.  I think my sister that lives in the outer burbs nearly had a heart attack walking with me and my two boys in our neighborhood as they sped ahead on the scooters ...but always stopped..they don't dare let their feet touch black w/out us (3 and 5.5).  I do know kids' brains aren't fully formed and they are impulsive, e.g., ball went into street...I'll dive after it without even thinking of looking...so I won't be letting them free-range (they do go to neighbors and in our backyard alone) for a little bit longer...but I can totally see them walking to and from by third grade as it seems most of the kids that age are doing that.  I'll see...I can see the bus stop from the window.  There is one major street they have to cross...but there are speed bumps and lots of parents...and the police always throw a sting operation there once in a while so the speed is kept down.[/quote]

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