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- 1 year 8 months ago
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I have a big opinion on this one. I think it's because A 
parents are to paranoid to let their kids out without them and then are to busy to take them out, therefore judgeing parents who allow their age appropriate kids to play outside without them and B people are to uppity about seeing kids playing outside these days. They act like kids are worse terrors outside now when they are just doing the same things we did. Climb trees, run around, ride our bikes, play with nerf guns, etc.
I let my almost 9 year old ride his bike on our street and go to the playground without me with him. He's old enough to do that, in my opinion. When he was 6, I was still very helicotper parentish and didn't want him anywhere outside without me up his butt. Now we live on a street with tons of kids and they range from age 6-14 and they all play outside without mom and dad. They play football, they play at the park with nerf guns, they ride their bikes and scooters, etc. It's like it's the 50s on my street! the kids don't leave our street, they stay here and play outside.
However, there are SO many people these days that are paranoid and think your a bad parent for letting your child play outside withought you up their butt. The world is actually LESS dangerous now than it was back then but because we hear more about it on the news than we ever have, parents kee their kids inside and then judge other parents that aren't walking their 15 year olds up to the bus stop. Kids just can't be kids anymore.
That and people call the cops for the STUIDEST things these days. There was a lady that lived up the street that used to threaten to call the cops if a kid even walked NEAR her lawn on the way to the bus stop. Some people just don't like kids. They complain kids are fat and lazy but then also complain when a kid is outside yelling and have a good time. You really can't win as a parent LOL
So i'm willing to be that a lot of these kids that are not outside, it's because people just have this strong opinion that parents need to put a leash on their kids these days to keep them safe. I've heard people say they don't care how funny it looks, they will walk their kids to the bus stop until they get their driver's license and they will not allow their 15 year olds to walk to the next street over a lone. Either the parents are paranoid or they are afraid they will be judged by people that don't allow their own kids to play outside with the other kids without a parent present. I can understand that if your kid is only like 5 or 6 or you live in an apartment and your yard is a parking lot lol but if you live in a nice area with a cul de sak and there are a ton of kids to play with and your child is like 8-10 they SHOULD be ok to play outside without you for at least a little bit, as long as they follow your rules and check in. I don't want my kid to be afraid to do things without me. We playfootball with the neighborhood kids sometimes and go for walks with my son while he rides his bike, but he's almost 9. He doesn't need us to hold his hand to go to a house three houses over and play in their yard with his friend. Others might disagree but that is how I feel, and this is coming from ME, who is as paranoid as you can get. This is just something i've had to ease up on. A kid should get to be a kid. It doesn't make us lazy as parents that we are not out there with him every second , anymore than it did our parents who were cleaning the house or watching much younger siblings when we were sent outside to play. I don't want to live in fear of something that COULD happen and have him miss out.Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No