I don't mean in the backyard...I mean like we did growing up. We'd leave our house in the morning and come back before dinner...our mother NEVER worried. Can we do that today?
2006-07-17 08:23:18 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
omg! no way! i used to be able to roam the neigborhood, free as a bird, with no worries. as long as i called once in a while, and was home for dinner. now, it's impossible. i won't even let my 12 year old step son skateboard to McDonalds, which is right at the end of our street! i went on-line and found out that there are 326 registered sex offenders in a 10 mile radius from me!!! and that's just the ones that have been caught and actually register! what about the ones that don't register, or the ones that haven't been caught? or what about the kidnappers, and murderers! no way, my kids are at my side 24/7!!!
2006-07-17 12:22:44 · answer #1 · answered by mamaaa01 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ummm, I was never gone from morning til night. What about lunch? Kind of rude to assume that some other parent is out there feeding your kid. I always have to know where my kids are and if they are coming home they call me. It's not safe out there anymore. If I remember correctly it wasn't so safe when I was growing up either. Maybe when my parents were growing up, when neighbors looked out for eachothers children. My kids are not allowed to run the neighborhood from morning until night no matter what their ages. If you are going somewhere, you better have a somewhere to go to and a purpose for being there...and if no parent is home, sorry bout your bad luck, but you aren't going there. I'm sure you can do that today with your kids, but is it wise? No.
2006-07-17 09:11:23 · answer #2 · answered by dixi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Tiffany, I live in a gated community that is allegedly "safe" and a few years back a child was out playing and taken by one of the residents and found dead a few days later.
Sad state of affairs, I sure miss those days when it was OK to leave the house in the morning, play all day all over the neighborhood, and MAYBE make it back before the sun went down.
2006-07-17 08:28:30 · answer #3 · answered by cynthetiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I make my older children(8, 10 and 12), have someone with them if they are outside. If they want to go toa friends house who lives more than a couple blocks away, I take them over there myself. My younger kids are never outside without me. I feel like I live in a safe area, but last year there was a convicted pedophile who had just been released from prison in Colorado, and he showed up in my neighborhood ( I live in Utah)and tried to grab a couple of girls who were selling lemonade. You can't trust anyone nowadays. It's so sad.
2006-07-17 09:01:29 · answer #4 · answered by Temp 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree that media floods our lives like never before. We are all "experts" with one-click access to any news item we wish to read about. Inherently I doubt the percentage of pedaphilers, killers, etc. has risen much. We just hear about the girl abducted in Alabama while sitting in Oregon. That never happened like it does now.
I think what scares us the most is the control factor. If something was to happen you would feel devastated and helpless because it wasn't under your control. It's just a different culture now.
2006-07-17 08:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by mike250 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing has changed its just the same as it was when i was little it jsut all depends how old thay are if thay know what to do if someone comes up to them and depends where u live some places arent very good like memphis tenn, i would never let my kids play out side there. but i dont live there im about an hr to 2 hrs from there driving.im in missouri. but still all depends.
2006-07-17 08:30:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm not exactly times are different.. im a teen right now and my mom would tell me of how she would go about her day as a kid. play outside all day and be back for dinner. But now it is a lot less safe for kids to be playing outside like you did. But it also depends on how old your kids are..
2006-07-17 08:28:35 · answer #7 · answered by Nat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so! I remember those days! Too bad there are so many screwed up people these days. It's rather pathetic, that we can't even let our children leave the yard to play, because we have to worry about some freak taking them or molesting them!!
2006-07-17 08:29:07 · answer #8 · answered by momx4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on where you live. If you live in neighborhoods like we always have they usually go outside and don't return until dark because it's a quiet neighborhood with friendly neighbors. If you live in some concrete jungle with alot of rif-raf it's probably not smart to let your kids be by themselves all day.
2006-07-17 08:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by BeeFree 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean about the good old days. Now it is not safe to let your children out of your sight for a second. It is too dangerous now.
2006-07-17 08:29:57 · answer #10 · answered by older woman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋