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When you were a kid.......?
Posted by amybyrd21 • 10/03/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: going free to do what ever, kids
When you were a kid did your parents just let you go and do what ever you wanted to?
I have friends that let there 13 year old drive around in a cargo van. hey let their 11 year old daughter go with him and his friends. They go off hunting (with a gun) all by them selves. They just turn them lose and let them go. When I was a kid I had certain freedoms at that age but not driving, hunting with a gun and taking off to where ever I wanted to. Now they are upset because I wont let my daughter go with their kids when they turn them lose. And to top it off we have a Federal Marshalls looking for two escaped convicts and one of them is a child molester in the woods near our house. So do yall think I am wrong?
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I think you know the answer to that one. Nobody in their right mind would let their kids do that. And as for guns, I'm 33 and haven't seen one that was loaded.
The first time I drove a car was when I was 17. (Finns don't get license until they're 18, practise starts at 17.) My brother drove earlier, with his dad, on off road -areas where it was safe to learn. -
Even when I was a kid, I had more common sense than the adults do today.
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No. You're right. Those kids are an accident waiting to happen. Hopefully the escaped convicts won't locate them, disarm them and make off with their firearms, or worse still, kill them to eliminate the possibility of being identified by them. Stand your ground and refuse to discuss the matter any further. -
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. -
I find this is more or less the norm at this point. My daughter is 13, and for the past 3-4 years has been the only one of her friends expected to provide any information about where she is, be home at a certain time, who has any rules about who she can ride with and such. She has middle-school friends who attend high school football games and then walk a couple of miles home by themselves at 10:30 or 11:00 at night (except when I drive them) and don't necessarily even have anyone waiting up for them. She has middle school friends whose parents buy them alcohol. These kids call me for rides, help with their homework, etc. because no one at home is available to them. I really have come to believe that most parents are more concerned about getting kids out from under their feet so they can go on with their own lives than they are about the well-being of their children.-
I have put my foot down over this and upset my daughter, the other kids and the other parents. I live in the middle of nowhere and their house is 1 1/2 miles away and I can not see from their house to mine so I am not letting my child just go and ride a bike on a roas where people go 90 and can pick her up and no witiness any where in site. I dont let her go to the creek with out adults to fish or swim. So I am a bad parent because I care
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Of course not. Your kids, you're the parent. Besides, regardless of how you usually feel about these things, if there are child molesters in the forest, I mean, that's almost comically absurd! That's Harold and Kumar territory!-
Adult friens of ours were huntin on the ridge in front of the house and ran into federal marshalls out looking for them It is not widley know. They are combing the woods in front of and behind our house on foot and with helicopters.
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Good to know. Thanks. I'm surprised there wasn't a public broadcast.
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The general impression I get is that most parents these days are ludicrously over-protective...not letting kids go off on their bikes or play in the woods like my friends and I did. While letting 13 yr. olds drive and hunt by themselves is certainly going way too far to the opposite extreme, I'm glad some parents aren't giving into the pervasive fear that's infected our society (fact: there are no more murderers or child molesters now than there were twenty or thirty years ago).-
"fact: there are no more murderers or child molesters now than there were twenty or thirty years ago."
Actually less. Overall crime rates have been dropping substantially for the past 10 years or so. There was a slight spike after the economic meltdown but not as substantial as expected. The new growth in many American ghettos, especially the Grady area, Centennial Park and Bankhead in Atlanta, and the Rainier Valley and neighboring Beacon Hill in Seattle, have very much quieted a lot of the violence and general antagonism of these areas. -
You want to know what I rememeber about Atlanta. I watched the news when I was down there and it was murder, murder, drug bust, murder, smoe one ran over (never found out if they lived, srug bust drug bust, murder, car jacking car jacking and that was the first 5 minuets of the news. I saw a lot of police pulling over peole and enough saggy pants down to peoples knee to last a life time. I am glad I do not live in a big city any where. I would have like20 dead bolts on my front and back doors and a gun in every room. I was leaving my keys and wallet in my car until they convicts here. The worst I have put up with here i my neighbor stealing form me and she is now in Texas on parole so I dont have to worry for a while.
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Your question cannot have any other answer but a VEHEMENT NO. Try to change the environment for your child -
My Dad was very strict. So my answer is no. -
I was a bit spoilt, but I wasn't allowed to do anything I wanted! -
Yeah! kinda -
I've always had many freedoom, but not that much! Hunting? no way
LOL Driving? To hard to that age here! LOL -
No way! My parents had me on lock with a Master Lock. LOL -
I pretty much went where I wanted as a kid. I left the house early in the morning and came back for supper, and then left again. My parents never asked me what I was doing and where I'd been. We didn't have a car and no one in my family owned a gun. One of my friend's brothers (I was nine) used to carry a gun. I remember holding it and thinking how much heavier it was then my toy pistols.-
my hubby was the same way but he grew up in a different time and helped provide food for the family. Most of the time that was fishing. But now I am afraid to let my kids go any where alone. Much less hunting and driving at the age of 13.
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Guns!
My pop never let me near a telephone.. and the story is endless how I saw other kids zooming past me and compared with my own overly restricted environment -
I would have reservations...
no no, not the redneck reservation... though it did come to mind...-
hahaha a nudist redneck reservation
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