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Originally Posted by Tapioca
Heck, I'm only in my late 20s and even I had the joy of playing street hockey until the late hours of the night in the summertime.
I'm going off on a tangent, but I honestly don't think the world is any more dangerous now than it was back then. We just didn't have a 24-hour news cycle and the internet to 'scare us' into thinking that there was a sexual predator lurking around every corner. I remember encountering weirdos on the streets back then, but like most kids, I simply ignored them or ran away fast if I felt too threatened. It's ridiculous that kids have to be dropped off at school if they only live 3-5 blocks away. I walked to school when I was 5 years old and I never came close to being run over by a car, nor did I ever have some shady character ask me to jump in their car for a ride.
I honestly hope that when my peers start having children that we can raise children the way that we were raised. Honestly, the possibilities of anything really bad happening to a child if left unsupervised are astoundingly small - the statistics favour parents.
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Yeah, it's pretty fascinating how this whole universal feeling of insecurity has been instilled in our society now compared to 20 years ago.
I'm about the same age as you, and yeah... back then, it seems like all the kids walked to school on their own. I swear I remember when I was like four years old, before I was in school, I would walk the couple blocks to elementary school on my own to pick up my older brother...
