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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read some of Lenore Skenazy’s writing on this.  That and Jonathan Chait’s book, The Anxious Generation, have motivated me to push against this trend and to give my kids a lot of autonomy and independence in the real world. This is to build confidence but also make the real world more interesting than the virtual one. My 11 y/o gets off the bus in the afternoon and goes to the park with friends. She often walks around our very walkable DC neighborhood by herself or with friends and goes to stores by herself, including to pick up milk etc for us. This summer I’m going to let her start riding the metro or DC bus by herself. To each their own but I am already seeing so much confidence in my kid and it has helped massively with her anxiety. She feels competent and happy. Eliminating all risk is impossible and attempting to do so just creates other risks, like getting sucked into online worlds, IMHO. [/quote]

You’re going to let an 11 year old girl ride alone on the Metro? Where shootings and stabbing take place and weird men are? Wow. You’re nuts.[/quote]

Ah I see the judgy anxious person has joined us, commenting on my post and another one. So yes, she will be either riding the metro or bus home from a camp with her younger brother. They have been riding transit with us for years here and I let them navigate whenever we have the time. I am fully confident in their ability to handle this and they are excited for the challenge. To each their own. To me, the “weird men” on the internet are a much more serious concern than a random homeless person talking to themselves on the metro. [/quote]

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