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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Y’all are crazy. What’s wrong with being part of this kid’s village? Kids today text - they don’t drop by the house and sit at your kitchen table anymore. As long as your conversations are things you’d share publicly then why wouldn’t you reply to these things? Kids need multiple people invested in them. They see you as a good and safe person. Be that person. All you other posters are so afraid you are making the world so small for your kids. [/quote]

I don't have kids in OP's demographic so I don't have advice. So while I understand some of the fears expressed, this PP right here really hits me in the feels. I think helicopter parenting has helped kill the village. It's not the only cause but it's part of it.[/quote]

That’s an interesting take. I would have thought that helicopter parenting is a response to the demise of our villages; that it’s parents trying to replace the missing villagers.[/quote]

Huh?  Parents should be parenting and there is no need for kids to go outside of their family for parenting attention.  There has never been a village.  There are active responsible parents who then feel sorry for kids whose parents don't care and end up parenting them as well.  A village would be mutual.  Usually its very one sided.[/quote]

Yes, villages are mutual. We buried my father this summer, and among the mourners at his funeral were a neighbor friend who referred to my dad as his second father; the neighbor lady whose house I used to go before the school bus arrived if my mother had an early morning doctor appointment, the parents of a boy my mom used to babysit, my former high school teacher (whose children I used to babysit), etc. My childhood bff’s parents brought us a meal. I could go on and on. My own children have not been babysat by neighbors and I don’t expect any of their teachers to attend my funeral in a few decades. I grew up in a small town that didn’t have a transient population and I had a village. My kids are growing up in a DC suburb, and although we have very nice neighbors, I wouldn’t say we have a village.[/quote]

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