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Reply to "Looking back, when did things change? When did we stop letting kids wander freely outside?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never try to minimize anyone's experiences or anything that the6ve give through. And I do think some of the safety standards and practices we now have are necessary, but I do think we lean a little too far in the other direction. Kids/teens don't have hardly any freedom anymore and largely supervised/organized, simultaneously somehow still with too much screen time. I do think they're missing out.[/quote] +1 We are pretty relaxed and followed neighborhood norms to keep kids supervised through ES but let them have a lot of freedom to bike/walk around the neighborhood with friends starting in middle school. During ES, the best thing about aftercare was that, except for the occasional structured class the kids wanted to do, it was a big, daily, unstructured play time. Yes adults were around nominally supervising but for the most part it was up to the kids to figure out what they were going to play and it was all grades together. [/quote]
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