How do you feel about raising kids into?

Question

days Freaked up world?

Answer 1

My kids do much of the same things I did growing up. They go outside and play in the yard with the other neighborhood kids, ride their bikes around, walk to the park a couple houses down etc. I do though keep a closer eye on them then my mother did with my siblings.
I live in a quiet, safe little, "unrealistic neighborhood" as my husband calls it. Nothing very exciting happens around here...a couple weeks ago they opened a supermarket in town and you would have thought Brad Pitt was moving down the street! Whenever I tell my friends that I overall think my town is a safe place, I get the comment, "Well that's right where kids are going to get kidnapped! In safe little towns where no one would think anything would happen! The world isn't safe like it was when we were kids!"
I don't know about other people, but I remember stories about kids being kidnapped, people getting murdered etc when I was a kid. A lot of serial killers in the 70s and 80s were around. There just wasn't as much mass media then.
I make sure I know where my kids are at all times and let them have some freedoms in the neighborhood. My 9.5yr son can ride his bike around the development with his friends if he wants to, but it's not like he's doing this where no one knows who he is or at 11pm. I watch them and keep my eyes open like us mothers do, but I don't keep them in bubbles.
Best Wishes =]

Answer 2

ditto what Sam said.

lots of scary things always happened. they just didn't make it to tv news, because tv news was only a couple hours a day and actually covered things like war and politics. now that they have to show "news" 24-7, they have the luxury of replaying every gory detail about some rare kidnapping over and over for weeks until somewhere in the back of your mind it seems to you like that one kidnapping really is equivalent to 100s, since it's all anyone ever talks about.

of course keep an eye on kids (they can, of course, fall off bikes or get in fights or get hit by a car). but don't overestimate the dangers or you rob them of many of the joys of being alive. a friend once was appalled that my parents kept an "outdoor cat." she said the cat would be much safer if it always stayed indoors. well, yes. the thing is, the cat liked to be outside ... and, i might add, it lived to a ripe old age.

Answer 3

This world's been pretty 'freaked up', as you say, for a very long time.

60-70 years ago, an extremist political leader in Germany was gathering up all of the Jewish people he could find and exterminating them in the desire for creating a master race.

Hundreds of years ago, women were routinely burned at the stake for 'seeming' to be a witch.

Barbaric human depravity is not new, unfortunately. This is just our lifetime's version of it.

The most important thing is to raise responsible, respectful human beings who will do their best to make the world around them better, and set that example yourself. The world won't change unless we change it.

Answer 4

I feel very sorry that my son cant go outside to play in the front yard like i did.. and not have to worry about some creep comin by to take him.

I was able to go out, do whatever i waned in my neighborhood when i was a kid... had to be back for dinner...now a days you cant do that. You gotta keep an eye on your kids 24/7! (at least thats' how it feels)

Answer 5

one word... SCARED!!!