Utah legalizes free-range parenting
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Yay! Kids get to be kids.
I don't believe that the world is significantly more dangerous than when I grew up in the 60s and 70s. We free-ranged all over the place and wouldn't have considered doing anything else. I am sad that kids don't get to live like that now.
What has changed is the level of fear we carry. I love access to all the information we now have at our fingertips, but it has made us much more aware of the bad things happening in the world. We get a sense that everything is more dangerous, when in reality we aren't figuring the odds of any of it happening to us.
I don't believe that the world is significantly more dangerous than when I grew up in the 60s and 70s. We free-ranged all over the place and wouldn't have considered doing anything else. I am sad that kids don't get to live like that now.
What has changed is the level of fear we carry. I love access to all the information we now have at our fingertips, but it has made us much more aware of the bad things happening in the world. We get a sense that everything is more dangerous, when in reality we aren't figuring the odds of any of it happening to us.
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Safer because of all the helicopter parenting?
No. The drop in violent crime over the past few hundred years is probably unrelated to helicopter parenting. lol
Safer because of all the helicopter parenting?
Plenty of literature out there on how helicopter parents are molding their children into teens incompetent for college and worse, as adults.
But I'm sure you weren't being serious.
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Mind-boggling that we have to legislate allowing a kid to go to a park without an armed escort. How ****ed up are we anyway? Good hell.
And I think anyone who notifies the police of "parental neglect" when they let their kid go to the park should be repeatedly kicked in their gonads, wherever they may be, until they can no longer reproduce. It isn't necessarily helicopter parenting that is the issue here (although that is some ****ed up ****, tbh, those kids are royally ****ed. I know, I have managed some that just cannot function in a real job in the real world), but rather the need people feel to police everyone else. Stay the **** out of other people's lives! This ****ing thing gets me worked up. I got into it with an neighbor who just could not keep their mouth shut, was always calling the police when they saw a kid walking down the street. It is all just total **** and people like that should be beaten within an inch of their lives. Stupid nosey mother****ers.
And I think anyone who notifies the police of "parental neglect" when they let their kid go to the park should be repeatedly kicked in their gonads, wherever they may be, until they can no longer reproduce. It isn't necessarily helicopter parenting that is the issue here (although that is some ****ed up ****, tbh, those kids are royally ****ed. I know, I have managed some that just cannot function in a real job in the real world), but rather the need people feel to police everyone else. Stay the **** out of other people's lives! This ****ing thing gets me worked up. I got into it with an neighbor who just could not keep their mouth shut, was always calling the police when they saw a kid walking down the street. It is all just total **** and people like that should be beaten within an inch of their lives. Stupid nosey mother****ers.
I worked Arby's in HS and did the job of any other two employees combined. We had this kid who was dumber than a sack of **** and worked like a zombie. The boss gave him employee of the month and I was like what the hell? He says "well, he's a straight A student". That's what helicopter parenting creates. Good grades but can't do a damn thing for themselves or function on the job.
I told my wife's nephew "warm it up in the microwave". His eyes lit up and had a huge smile, says really? astounded I'd let him.
There are professors at elite universities complaining that helicopter parents are attending their job interviews and negotiating wages. I could understand that for a kid but someone with a college degree? I would flag that as "this interview is not happening, goodbye".
Once when I was four I pissed on the stairs in my sleep then walked out the door and slept in a ditch. Mom smelled something wrong woke up and called the cops and all the neighbors. It took a long time before I woke up and went back to my bed, and I didn't even know fifty people were still combing the neighborhood looking for me.
After that, mom never called the cops.
After that, mom never called the cops.
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My step mom in Washington state would push me out the front door at 8 and lock it behind me. Unlock it at noon to feed me lunch and back out the door at 1 locking it behind me. She'd unlock it at 5 and I could come back. Conveniently an hour before my father got home. I wasn't parented at all when there. I got into all sorts of stupidity.
That sounds a bit too harsh. I was never locked out but we always had freedom to wander. Most parents these days would be (are) horrified by what I was allowed to do. Chop wood and build the morning fire at 5 y.o., walk to the gas station with a sibling or friend and get a stack of those free WWF cards from 7 11... Those sorts of things.
It was to harsh. She locked us out because she didn't want to deal with my brother and I. Meanwhile her daughter and two boys (my half brothers) got to go in and out like normal.
Eh, what ever. have lots of memories lol
