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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember our black neighbors wouldn't let their boys play tag, etc, at the bus stop, and I really felt for them. How hard it must be to say no out of fear for the inevitable overreaction to your kid just being a kid. I'm sorry, op.[/quote]

Not letting kids play tag at the bus stop is common sense for all skin colors.

You sound like one of those annoying parents who believe that society should think every pip and squeak from junior's orifices should considered winsome and sweet. It's not. Your kid is annoying. [/quote]

What a weird reaction. All the neighborhood kids were playing, and I felt for the black parents who felt they had to say no to their kids. I didn't say anything about my own children.[/quote]

I wouldn't let mine play either at the bus stop.  How is that weird?  I also don't let them play outsisde alone for safety, nor my dog.[/quote]

Sorry, bus stop was a sort of shorthand I used in my initial post for the area near the bus stop where the kids would play before or after school. My point was just that it was all the kids, but even when encouraged to join in, the two black boys wouldn't, and the parents would discourage it, and I realized that sadly they didn't feel like the kids could join in without someone getting upset.[/quote]

Maybe they wanted their kids to behave a specific way.  I would NOT have let mine play at a bus stop.  We can go to a playground or our backyard for that  I was always very strict with behavior out in public.[/quote]

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