Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
General Parenting Discussion
Reply to "Looking back, when did things change? When did we stop letting kids wander freely outside?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]The pandemic gave my neighborhood this gift. We were all stuck at home and kids had no activities so they all played outside with each other (outside was safer than inside for COVID). My kids befriended so many neighborhood friends despite the kids going to different private schools (and some the neighborhood public school). Now that activities are back some of this has been cut back since kids aren't as available after school. But I make sure we have a couple of days a week where the kids do have those hours between when school is over and when dinner starts to hang out with their neighborhood friends, ride the bike around the block, play in the woods behind the neighbor's house, etc. It's also cut back because while some parents have maintained some flex work schedules (and some work-at-home capability) since 2020, not all the families have. Those kiddos who have two work-out-of-the-home parents have less of a connection to the neighborhood kid friend group.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
