"Play date" is such a cringey gay as fuck phrase.
Why? Kids play. So the thing being scheduled is "play". What do scheduled things have? Dates. Why do you hate the family unit so much?
Look at statistics. The majority of pedo-rapists are minorities, and we have exponentially more of them now than we did even in "my time," the mid to late 90s, and even then I was armed with a knife and taught how to defend myself with it as a little girl.
Teach your kids how to defend themselves and make them aware of the danger. I would never get anywhere near a strange car or person, I knew adults would never need my help and knew to fight dirty and aim for the nuts if someone ever got me.
Yeah that's true, also mental illness and community cohesion is much different now than it was back even in the 80s. All the neighborhoods I knew as a kid where 90-99% white in 1987-1995 and starting about 5-8 years ago they are majority chink, nigger or spic. And even the chink areas(Irvine, CA) are becoming 10-20% nigger now. It's not the same world anymore.
This. If it's the house across the street, or literal next door or something. Sure go out. If I'm out mowing the lawn and can see the entire block, great have fun.
No longer would or should be allowed like when I was 8 years old going multiple miles away from home.
Free range childhood was great , but sometimes sketchy. The occasional pervert in the park , older kids or niggers jumping you and stealing your shit , but overall it's the best.
Little bit of both. Live in a nice neighborhood on a cup-de-sac with lots of kids. Often my 3 year old will wonder off down the street and play on the neighbors porch.
The same for me and a wonderful way to spend my childhood. Except that one time I ran into a barbed wire fence with my face the day before school pictures.
Depends where you live I guess. My neighbors is full of kids out riding bikes on nice weather days, off exploring the woods or whatever. It's not like the 70s or 80s where parents would even let a 5 year old wander wherever. But nowadays a 10 year old with a cell phone should be able to go out and be reasonably safe.
Where I was from was really hilly so we couldn't go super far. And we lived off of main Road as well and it was tricky to ride your bikes to some of the further neighborhoods. We had a group of kids that were more or less all around the same age in our neighborhood so until around the 7th grade we hung out with just the neighborhood kids all summer. We would sometimes go to the back neighborhood. you could cut through it yard and get over there. there was a handful of kids that we could play with. I used to put camo on and walk around the backwoods and stalk my neighbors in the woods trying to see if they could see me. I confessed jokingly to an older neighbor who live next door that I used to sit in this particular spot with my camo on and just watch the kids play baseball. It was 35 years ago so I don't think he really cared anymore, he thought it was funny. We definitely had free rain that's for sure I'd imagine you would get the same now if you lived in a neighborhood that wasn't filled with degenerates. Not all of them are by any means but all it takes is one pervert. I don't have kids but I was with my brother and he's got two. he let them go off to the bathroom, we were in Virginia Beach. that's just filled with niggers, dick touchers and perverts. I was like you're really going to let your kids go to the bathroom by themselves? So I went into the bathroom and just waited there for the boy. Then we walked over and waited for his sister to come out of the girls bathroom. I mean they're 10 and 9 they're kind of young. Maybe they're not but as I stated before public bathrooms are a little risky in my mind.
Our challenge was always distance. We live rural and it was a 30 minute drive to our kids' friends' houses. So, before our kids were driving it required a parent to drop off and requires a bit of planning / scheduling. Lots of sleepovers simply because no parent wanted to drive more than an hour in a day.
IMHO, the 'modern' version of having your kids run free on the internet (or mostly free with some Ashkenazi porn blockers.) All of my children were given pretty free access to online games/ chats / etc.. They created friend groups and joined age appropriate social communities. We raised them with good judgement and values. We gave them age appropriate common sense rules and worked with a high level of trust.
Both. I let my kids roam the neighborhood to make friends. However, there just aren't that many other kids roaming around, so we have to supplement by finding friends in other ways.
In my previous neighborhood, the police would hassle my child and bring her home for being outside by herself.
I'm guilty of being way more over-protective of my kids than my parents were with me.
Given the absolute degeneracy that exists out in the real world these days, you're doing the right thing. Back when we were kids that degeneracy either didn't exist, or if it did it was very rare and rightfully socially shamed.
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