tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post479715171424238867..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Seven Reasons We Hate Free-Range ParentingSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-4844685692880648412015-04-14T09:37:27.378-05:002015-04-14T09:37:27.378-05:00Why have seatbelts? When I was a kid I used to jum...Why have seatbelts? When I was a kid I used to jump from the back seat to the front while the car was whizzing down the road. Now helicopter parents are preventing kids from having the same freedom I used to have.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-39554064984786588152015-04-14T09:32:28.014-05:002015-04-14T09:32:28.014-05:00what is it about this country that has changed so ...<i>what is it about this country that has changed so much since the 50s? Maybe what changed is statistics and record-keeping.</i><br /><br />The nanny state has changed things a lot, too. Seatbelts, smoke alarms, anti-smoking campaigns, stuff like that keeps people from dying and it's sure not the market place that made them mandatory.<br /><br />EmilyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-66345130858421692542015-04-13T23:12:36.619-05:002015-04-13T23:12:36.619-05:00Twenty-six years ago, a girlhood playmate of mine ...Twenty-six years ago, a girlhood playmate of mine was abducted in broad daylight from a neighborhood park in Paris where we all "safely" played. She's not yet been found. I visited her parents last summer; you can still see the emotional fracture in their faces.<br /><br />That is fucking why, Megan.Clever Pseudonymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-86800829830575676802015-04-13T21:51:55.561-05:002015-04-13T21:51:55.561-05:00She is unbelievable. None of her friends were rape...She is unbelievable. None of her friends were raped so it is not a big risk and she can't understand why people would irrationally see it as a risky. But a friend of hers is a pedophile so she has empathy for pedophiles? <br /><br />Because she is the center of the universe. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-64327374816196190392015-04-13T20:21:57.133-05:002015-04-13T20:21:57.133-05:00None of us kids -or adults- used seatbelts, and ne...None of us kids -or adults- used seatbelts, and neither I or anyone I knew was never killed in a car crash! That proves seatbelts are not necessary!<br /><br />I don't know any kids who were kidnapped & raped, but I know of quite a few who were badly injured when playing alone, and a couple who drowned. It was pretty common in 50s, 60s & 70s.<br /><br />Another really common killer was House Fires caused by smokers. It was an almost daily thing on the nightly news "X number of children were suffocated or burned to death when their parent fell asleep in (bed/sofa) with lit cigarette. Almost daily.<br /><br /><i>what is it about this country that has changed so much since the 50s?</i> Maybe what changed is statistics and record-keeping. <br /><br />Now we have iPhones and the internet, and other less publicized problems are starting to be revealed <i>daily</i>Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-59016439006328661292015-04-13T20:03:21.135-05:002015-04-13T20:03:21.135-05:0058000 - which is probably a bogus number - is less...58000 - which is probably a bogus number - is less than 1 in 1000. There is a huge story to be told about the transition in American society about how childhood changed from an outdoor, pack thing, like childhood has always been, to something separated and confined. <br /><br />Is Megan the one to tell it?<br /><br />Ermmm....no.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-14047135085898566542015-04-13T15:49:01.394-05:002015-04-13T15:49:01.394-05:00We know more now. It happened but the shame was on...We know more now. It happened but the shame was on the victim and nobody talked about it. Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-46907584028659053882015-04-13T15:45:05.957-05:002015-04-13T15:45:05.957-05:00everyone i grew up with was 'free range'.....everyone i grew up with was 'free range'...most days i saw my mother only at breakfast, lunch, dinner and at dusk...i was given busfare to travel all over cleveland, including through the worst neighborhoods, when i was 12...my parents grew up the same way, and it never occurred to me or them that there was any danger for a child to be alone in the city...what is it about this country that has changed so much since the 50s?rjshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15681812432224138582noreply@blogger.com