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[quote=Anonymous]I have an 8 year old daughter, live 2 blocks away from a park/playground, generally safe area…no, I wouldn’t let her go alone yet. My 10 year old does go to that park alone/with friends but no adults all the time but didn’t start doing so til summer after 3rd grade when i felt he was mature and responsible enough. My 8 year old is a very cautious and responsible kid so maybe we’ll let her go alone soon. My main concern is cars on the way to/from the park—I frequently see cars not stopping at stop signs, backing too fast out of driveways, speeding, etc and think it would be easy for them not to see kids who are small and harder to see. But also there are occasional “incidents” at the park—last week my daughter fell at that playground and hit her head really hard and needed help. It wouldn’t have been good if she had been there alone or just w friends. Another time someone’s off leash dog ran through the park chasing kids and my daughter was terrified. Things like that are more likely than a kidnapping or encounter w child predator [i]but[/i] I do also worry about that as well…unlikely yes but possible also yes. People who are wanting to harm kids do tend to seek out places kids are likely to be such as playgrounds and an unsupervised kid is more of a target.[/quote]

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