Website review: Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Su...
lebrewski discovered this in Parenting
•34 reviews since Apr 4, 2008
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lebrewski discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids. It's not. It's debilitating -- for us and for them."
- mouser882 rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "The problem with this everything-is-dangerous outlook is that over-protectiveness is a danger in and of itself. A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't." I wandered around as a kid, and I loved it. I hate to think that children now are unable to enjoy that kind of freedom because of overprotective parents. From the page: "...Trevor Butterworth, a spokesman for the research center STATS.org, said, "The statistics show that [children being abducted, killed, etc] is an incredibly rare event, and you can't protect people from very rare events. It would be like trying to create a shield against being struck by lightning." Unlike in the suburbs where everyone has to drive everywhere, independent transportation is important in the city and therefore it's even more important that kids know how to navigate it on their own. This woman never again has to worry if her child can find his way home if he gets lost.
- rxreed rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Anyway, for weeks my boy had been begging for me to please leave him somewhere, anywhere, and let him try to figure out how to get home on his own. So on that sunny Sunday I gave him a subway map, a MetroCard, a $20 bill, and several quarters, just in case he had to make a call..."
- chicotree rated 3 months ago
- a very complicated issue indeed. i guess it depends on the kid and the strength of the community involved. in portland maybe yes. newyork city maybe no. would a lioness leave her cub alone. no. no animal does. that is up to a point when the transfer from child to pre-adult is made through the process of collective parenting by the parent and the community. i like the strength of the woman in this article.
- JMauser rated 3 months ago
- I applaud this parent. Giving children independence, while a scary thing to do, is absolutely essential in raising healthy, independent adults who can solve their own problems.
- seowoman rated 3 months ago
- This is why I stopped watching TV news, especially local news. Their primary method of making money is scaring the hell out of you. Bad things happen to good people every day, but that doesn't mean there's a kidnapper lurking around every corner.
- statoun rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "I left my 9-year-old at Bloomingdale's (the original one) a couple weeks ago. Last seen, he was in first floor handbags as I sashayed out the door. Bye-bye! Have fun! And he did. He came home on the subway and bus by himself." Bravo for this mother! I could go anywhere by myself when I was a kid, as long as I was home by dark. Aren't parents supposed to want their kids to have a better life than they did? What is all this 'don't let your kids walk to school' paranoia good for? Certainly not for kids!
- Lokito rated 3 months ago
- From the page: Misinformation shows that misinformation! Seriously, don't quote the government. It'll take a decade or two for the bullshit statistics produced by the current U.S. government to fall through the cracks. Just pointing that out. As for letting kids do their own thing, it's something that needs to be determined case by case. The problem is the conceit parents have of their kids being intelligent, resourceful, etc. It works IF the kid is, and no rare, horrendous event occurs, but you have to objectively decide whether a kid can handle what you'd like to think they can handle. And on an unrelated note, I'm sort of disturbed that a related video thumbnail for this page shows large black men in do-rags getting arrested.
- Lozza-mc rated 3 months ago
- Good FSM, I get ripped on for just letting my son go outside to play unsupervised for hours, I can't imagine the magnitude of responses to this article... which I loved by the way!
- ravgirl rated 3 months ago
- I just shook my head when I heard this one the news. Is this woman really out of touch with reality? There is no excuse for ignorance when we live in a media frenzy world. Today is not the yesterday we lived when we were kids. Get real!
- shadowpool rated 3 months ago
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