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Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town (reason.com)

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I grew up in the 90s.

When we got to 2nd grade, we became eligible to take a road-sign test. (Left, right, stop). If you could demonstrate that you knew what that meant, and show them you owned a helmet, you could then ride your bicycle to and from school.

I was 7.

This was more than a decade after the term "stranger danger" had been seared into the American psyche.

I worry of the future.

[–] stoy 21 points 1 week ago

In my school in Sweden the blanket rule was that once you were ten you got to bike to school.

Now this was in the suburbs north of Stockholm and the streets were calm, but we did have to pass a rail crossing.

I remember the day before school school was starting, my mom walked me and my sister to school to show the way we should walk to school, and then we walked to and from school unsupervised from when I was six.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

People think kids can do less and less. I was ten when I was allowed out in a rowboat by myself on the lake my grandparents had a cottage on in the 90’s. Walk a mile? We went all fucking over. I don’t get it. Shit the rule at school was if you lived within half a mile you walked to school.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Shit, my bus stop was at least a half mile away without so much as a sidewalk anywhere, just a dirt road and a canal. You didn't even get a bus stop if you were less than 2 miles from school. We regularly rode our bikes like 12 miles away from home to the movie theater, I think we were pre-teens. Technically I could have ridden my bike to grade 6 (it was on the way to the movie theater), but who wants to show up to 6th grade everyday drenched in sweat or rain (it would always have been one or the other).