After a long hiatus, I came across this article and I just had to throw in my two cents. WE NEED TO SEND THIS WOMAN A GIFT. She is brilliant, and I totally agree with her.
As someone who has been on the receiving end of incredulous looks when local parents find out that "those two boys" walking to school in the morning (dios mio!) are mine. Um, yeah. Their school isn't any farther than mine was, lo these 40 years ago, and I walked. In the midwest. In a short skirt and frilly socks with mary janes. In the winter. (Backwards and uphill each way, naturally. That's how we did it back then, and we liked it that way.)
I'm really tired of kids not being allowed to test their independence, its making them indecisive lumps with no trust in their own ability to take care of themselves. Kudos to the moms that allow their kids to roam the neighborhood. The ones that make them take the city bus to Jr. High, and ride the subway. Well done, ladies!! The scariest thing my kids are likely run into is ME (after I caught them jaywalking).
An embarrassing illustration of how the constant media churn of the same damn scary stories have scared us into limiting our kids over the generations: Looks like great-grandpa had fun and the rest of us have been progressively more screwed.
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