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As a kid, my friends and I mostly had free rein. Be home by dinner time or dark were the most common rules. When school was in session, we'd have a few hours to run around the neighborhood. In the summer it wasn't uncommon to find us riding bikes to the next town miles away. Parents didn't ever know where we were going or what we were doing. As long as we were home on time there was no issue.

With all the random encounters of other kids out and about, you learned all kinds of skills. How to explain a black eye to your parents without getting anyone in trouble, how to judge a person's character, what was "cool" and what wasn't. It was different from being at school, because we were all without supervision and true colors revealed themselves. It was a learning experience everyday.

I'm guilty of being way more over-protective of my kids than my parents were with me. Looking back I think I've been conditioned by media to make my kids' lives less fulfilling. I feel shame.

As a kid, my friends and I mostly had free rein. Be home by dinner time or dark were the most common rules. When school was in session, we'd have a few hours to run around the neighborhood. In the summer it wasn't uncommon to find us riding bikes to the next town miles away. Parents didn't ever know where we were going or what we were doing. As long as we were home on time there was no issue. With all the random encounters of other kids out and about, you learned all kinds of skills. How to explain a black eye to your parents without getting anyone in trouble, how to judge a person's character, what was "cool" and what wasn't. It was different from being at school, because we were all without supervision and true colors revealed themselves. It was a learning experience everyday. I'm guilty of being way more over-protective of my kids than my parents were with me. Looking back I think I've been conditioned by media to make my kids' lives less fulfilling. I feel shame.

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"Play date" is such a cringey gay as fuck phrase.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Freedom for my kids.

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freedom from my kids

No, I like them, but kids need to learn independence, and mine are old enough. 16, 15 and 12.

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You lost me at “schedule” and “play date”…

Look, we are a society that has become obsessed with safety. It’s now a cardinal sin to drive around in a vehicle without your kids belted up, or let them ride a bike without a helmet, etc. Part of this is due to the feminization of the western male. Women will always exchange freedom for security, especially when it comes to the safety and well-being of their children. Men on the other hand are less averse to risk-taking, but most of the men have been turned into faggots and women so there is no counter-balance to the woman’s desire for safety.

The other major reason - and you are correct in this one - is the conditioning by the media. The media wants us to feel insecure which exacerbates the exchanging our freedom for security.

This in part has led us to creating a generation of entitled spoiled brats who have an incredible aversion to any sort of discomfort and are woefully unprepared to face the real world. But hey the kids are “safe”.

Should you feel shame? Probably not. You’ve been conditioned and you’ve only been doing what you thought (or was told) is best for your kids. At least you recognize that much, so now do something about it. You can still keep your kids “safe” by making them wear seatbelts and helmets - some of this shit is common sense - but give them the latitude to make their own decisions and the freedom to get away from parental influence. This will help with them build the self-confidence that they will eventually need to leave the nest and step out on their own. And the bonus is that you won’t have a 35 year old man child living in your basement.

Good luck!!

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Seat belts are bad.

Can your nose get bigger?x

Implying children should ride bikes without helmets.

Yes it can.

Women will always exchange freedom for security...

And the attack on women.

...especially when it comes to the safety and well-being of their children.

Which isn't' a female trait. It's an instinctual WHITE trait regardless of which sex. If this bothers you, come on, do better. You attack the family unit with every single sentence. You're a preddit commie. Likely jewish.

Men on the other hand are less averse to risk-taking...

Yes. For themselves. Not for their children. Not even remotely for their children.

but most of the men have been turned into faggots

I mean yes. Niggers, jews, muslims etc.

The other major reason - and you are correct in this one - is the conditioning by the media. The media wants us to feel insecure which exacerbates the exchanging our freedom for security.

Are you going to be so audacious to claim that in 2022 it's just as safe to go outside and play away from known and trusting adults as it was 20, 30, 40+ years ago? You are galactically stupid.

This in part has led us to creating a generation of entitled spoiled brats who have an incredible aversion to any sort of discomfort and are woefully unprepared to face the real world. But hey the kids are “safe”.

That generation isn't children anymore. You describe millennial generation with that. I've met more, and seen news of more gen Zer who are known to the JQ and averse to niggers etc.

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Found the commie jew shitstain that downvoted my post, I should have known it was .

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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.

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Same here, in by dark and it was all good. today is a different ballgame. maybe its still ok if in a small rural town or anywhere in the Michigan UP for example

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We live in the country, so the kids can do whatever. Just let us know when they're heading out so we can assess whether their chores are done first. Be back by lunch or dinner depending on when they leave.

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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.

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