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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not American, but I don’t see the issue with carpooling. What’s wrong with that? We don’t do sleepovers due to a fear of SA, and we wouldn’t allow dating, because we don’t believe in intimacy before marriage, but what is wrong with carpooling?[/quote]

Distracted and terrible driving, poorly maintained car, negligence to check if kids were wearing seatbelts, allowing rudeness, inappropriate behavior  and trash talking in the car - we saw this behavior when I was also in the car of one parent who gave us a lift one time.  So, that was my one exposure and then DH and I decided that we would not let our kids do carpool with someone else. I am perfectly fine driving other people's kids around if I am asked. I will happily do the carpooling, wait for them for pickup and drop off, let them wait for their parents at my house, provide meals and free childcare etc at my house, host events at my own house...all of this so that I can let my kids have fun and have friends...but I do not trust others with my children. 
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You are raising your children to be paranoid freaks. I’m 1/2 “American” and in my other home country children are much more free to play, explore, become independent in a healthy way while still having the whimsy of childhood. This is what I have tried to instill as well as less materialism, importance of family, learning for the love of it not just a career path, greater sense of community. We are also very strict about guns. I will ask other parents if they have guns and how they are stored, and we talked to our children about what to do if a friend ever decided to “show them daddy’s gun” or something. [/quote]

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