One thing I did notice there.. The 'free range' children were also not obese either. The looked like... kids. They had social skills, good communications and seemed to handle money well.
Exactly. They're not these babied, coddled, sensitive snowflakes, nd they're way more adept to life. It is what all kids should be like. The parents who coddle their children are creating entitled, bratty, incompetent, and scared children with no life skills and no sense of the real world. They can't take no for an answer and they will certainly not have a good time trying to find a job when they know so little about anything. This is how millenials were made.
honestly though my mom was not at all keeping me at home, she would have loved me going outside, but I never really wanted to go, I would have rather read a book
People in general might not be obese there. I’m pretty sure that only 20% of children are obese. And by “only,” I don’t mean that that’s a small percentage, but that the overwhelming majority of children are not obese. Thus... I’m not sure how relevant that observation is.
She scares me, and I'm almost a grown man😟😂😂just playing, but she seriously reminds me of those REALLY ANNOYING mom's that even their own kids don't like
Matt Hudson IKR, kids these days are so sissified and what's really scary is that they don't understand or value the freedom of people being independent. They have the feeling of needing to be coddled and told what to do at all times so the idea of people being able to do and say what they want seems sort of wrong to them. That why they are willing to give up free speech in way of inacting "hate speech laws" and anyone that says anything you don't like is an actual threat to you. So they label them Nazis to excuse using violence on them. It's already the rule on college campuses. What is really worrisome is these see people are voting and will be running for office someday. The only hope is they experience the real world and learn some values about personal liberty and what natural rights mean before then.
@Justin Beaird i've been perfectly fine i've walked around my home town since i was little whats the problem here, these parents are idiots. I have friends who's parents are like this, i can now drive so I without their parents permission take them on a trip around the province every weekend because they wouldn't allow it. I have driven 2+ hrs away for a day trip all the while telling there parents they were wondering around the town or just out in the woods. Fuck the parents its their choice.
Right? It makes you wonder where (and how) that cop grew up. We would go for hours (and miles) all day without water when we were kids. Even at my age today, I can make 1.5 miles without carrying water, and I definitely need more hydration now than I did at 10.
Right. i could still walk a couple blocks around my neighborhood and if I really need water i can stop by the church back here in the woods and take a drink out the hose
Fuck yessss!!!!!! We would always drink water from the hose from one of our older neighbors it was funnn!!!! I loved that and i miss it sooo muuuchhh!!!!
@Flatus Antiquitous But if the child is not taught the proper skills and information, then that wouldn't really be Darwinism since a gun is outside the natural status i.e. it's not a naturally occurring thing.
I somehow wish it was possible for my kids to still be able to have such great times Sadly half of what was seen as kids having fun back then is now illegal. The River we swam in is now poisoned and the mountains access have been severely restricted Its sooo sad
Gee, nowadays the government is IMPORTING pedophiles!! We need to take our country back from the liberal, retarded, insane Left! Government IS the problem!!!
SgtPiggie Amen to that brother and when I was little I was roaming the streets after a fun day at the park and saw a gate open with an angry dog in it and told my brother to run backwards and thank god the dog didn't notice the open gate but ran to chase us behind the closed wall.
She'd hate how I was raised. We wandered the side of a mountain with knives and pellet guns. Unsurprisingly we never had any issues. My mom also is a therapist.
and 1 mile isnt a lot either, for a 7-9 year old to walk a mile it takes probably 20 minutes, its the same thing as walking to and back from school yet ive never seen anyone with a problem with that
If its in Florida and in the summer heat I think a child could easily pass out from that. When I was a kid I always took a water bottle with me outside.
Lol. Back in the day, we would walk miles by ourselves. Do chores for my mom by going to the post office a mile away, or to the bank to help make deposits.
6:33 "The child lived approximately a mile and a half from the location. That's a great distance for a 7 year old to travel without water or nourishment." lol Does this cop not realize how ridiculous he sounds? The kid is on a shaded sidewalk. He's not traversing the Gobi Desert. 1.5 miles? Nourishment? lol
That's exactly what I thought. A mile and a half is about 20 to 30 minutes. When I was a kid, we used to walk to our local convenience store (about 3/4 of a mile) to get root beer for dad and maybe a pop for ourselves. 2 miles to school? No problems there, I did that because it was faster than the bus. Now you see kids being driven to the bottom of their driveways for the bus to puck up. Don't get me started on busses stopping every fricking house to get one kid. My bus stop was at the convenience store. We didn't carry water and 'nourishment' with us. Oh no, I just realized that my parents were irresponsible!
When I was a kid, I had a longer walk than that to and from the school bus. I did it every day, as did every other kid I knew. In the 70s, that's what you did.
When kids don't learn to scope out their environments that's the real danger. Oh, remember Elizabeth Smart? She was abducted out of her own bed. No one is actually safe anywhere. We all need an FBI agent guarding each of us while we sleep.
100% agree with these parents! When I was young I would jump on my bike and go missing for hours to play... it teaches you to make the right choices.... there's clearly limits, but people hovering over their kids raises soft kids
I headed for the "back 40"......not to be seen until after dark. BB guns, knives and all......shotguns when a teenager. The good ole days before the internet and cell phones 60s-70s
You dont raise adults when they are children. They gradually learn. I dont believe this method. You treat them like kids because they are kids! All with supervision
@@lustrousandlovely6847 your end goal is to have adults, not children, so shouldn't we be teaching them valuable skills wherever we can? you cant treat them like kids forever, sooner or later you have to treat them like adults, and the best way to do it is to do it gradually, give them a few responsibilities and adult freedoms slowly over time.
" I want to smoke, I want to drive your car" lady, please, tell me where did anybody, say anything, about letting their kids do anything like that!? Nowhere that's where. Please, calm down
free range or not, they might take on smoking, if they are informed, they might not, and I guess free range kids would be more confident in resisting social pressure.
I agree. I walked or rode a bike way more than a mile. As did every other child around me in the 70's. I guess we all died and this new experimental group is trying to get some to survive huh?
Only the dumb ones didn't survive. Lol School was a mile and a half away, hot or cold, we walked to school. At least a third of us in elementary school, all ages, walked to school everyday. The older kids walked with the younger kids. This was all normal in the 70's.
Its still normal in most parts of the world, only in america do they allow the media to drive up meaningless fears to such an insane degree. At least the control of the media has become fucking obvious now.
The cop is flat wrong. I was a kid. I have had and raised kids. The cop is being ignorant. And it is certainly NOT within his scope to make that accusation or charge. He can do anything he wants with his kids. Not mine.
Have the cop work near an elementary school, he's going to be very busy arresting parents who let their kids walk to school. He will make his quota for arrests in one day.
I thought it was funny that he added "without water or food", when it was only 1.5 miles. When I was a kid, I would go on long walks with my dad, and we would walk for a lot longer than 1.5 miles without stopping to eat or drink. When I was in elementary school, I would walk and take the bus to school. When I got to the stop near my school, I would take a detour so that I could pet one of the neighborhood cats. No one even came close to giving me any trouble.
@@Mwoods2272 So now this father is going to have to spend his child's college tuition fund on a defense attorney. Just to have this cop put another feather in his cap. Another trashy cop.
Yes, that therapist was actually the one acting like a spoiled brat throwing a temper tantrum when she supposed to be the adult, where these free-range children were acting like human beings & being normal kids, while answering Jon's questions in a fun way.
@@neversimpgamingyt I grew up in England, and between the ages of 7-12 in Spain (I think 2006 to 2010, I could be slightly off), and the constant parental supervision is something I didn't see in either culture. In Spain, from the first year we lived there, I would hang out with the local kids playing cops and robbers till well past midnight in the summer, playing in the ruins of houses abandoned for close to century due to Francos urbanisation policies. My personal favourite to hide in was a house where a wooden beam had fallen and taken out two floors below, forming a bridge to the top floor and making it the only way to get up there.
Amen to that. I used to ride my bike blocks away, walk down the creek, walk to the public pool on weekends as long as we were home by lunch and dinner or before dark we're were golden.
Free range? You mean NORMAL? HELL...When I was growing up, I wouldn't see my mom all damn weekend sometimes! We would literally pack a bag and spend the weekend in the woods, swimming in the creek, riding bikes miles from home, building forts, climbing trees, etc! Only the "weird" kids weren't allowed to come play with us!
Could this explain why the current generation of undergraduates appears to contain a cohort of fragile, neurotic narcissists whose very existence is threatened by the possibility someone might disagree with them?
Its a product of sheltered lives that are not real in any way. The typical intellectual does though experiments, thinks in a study by themselves reads the philosophers and think they have all the answers. Problem is, they never leave their desks and actually explore the real world. They live in a make believe fantasy world.
There's a little bit more to it than that, but yes, that's part of it. Insane socio-politics is treating kids like they have the life-making decision capacity of adults (when honestly even adults find many decision very difficult), and adults as needing protection as if they were kids. It also has so much to do with the breakdown of the stable family that has been only getting worse since it began in the late 60's. The early 1970's was the last gasp of common free-range childhood in the West.
"That was a great distance (1.5 miles) for a 7 year old to walk without any water, or nourishment" this cant be real, this kid isnt backpacking accross the Appalachian mountains, he's walking on paved roads. Whats he gonna die from dehydration or starvation. And this is a police officer, a group of people who should be required to have a good amount of common sense.
Of the Idiot Majority, the cops are the most "indoctrinated", willlman831. They should have a good amount of common sense, but under the circumstances, they DON'T.
I would walk or bike to my friend's house nearly 2 miles away on a regular basis, no helmet, no knee pads, no elbow pads. Fell off by bike 2 times in five years. That how you learn.
I use to walk five miles, uphill to school, with a load of bricks on my back - then after school, another five miles uphill back home, but no bricks. Ha Ha
I have a friend that practically held her kids hands through their whole lives.. Both are grown now and both have trouble handling the simplest task on their own. She'll be an old lady and still be doing every thing for them. Essentially, she'll never have a life of her own because she'll have to manage those kids until they die.
My sister is the same. Has all her teenage son's passwords, access to all his contacts, personal information, etc. She spies on his conversations through apps and signing into his accounts, has cameras installed to watch him, doesn't allow him to go to see his friends... needless to say he resents her with a passion and rightly so - he's no angel, mind you. She's turned him and all her children into absolute monsters with no sense of accountability at all. Sheltered children often grow up to be the worst of people. They never learn self responsibility.
I had the opposite, me and my sister named our experience “Neglect for convenience”. There were some pros, I can cook better than most people my age, knows how to use all household tools, etc. But I think it was mostly a negative experience, even if I know a lot, it can’t fix the rest of it.
@@teestjulian you say that until you end upo. The news crying about the missing kids gaining the sympathy of idiots that supported your ideology. Go somewhere else with your half ass clever comments and grow a brain you twat😂🤣
When I was a child in the 80s and early 90s I would go off on my own for hours at a time. Never had a problem. Statistically speaking. Your child is more in danger with someone they know over walking around strangers.
I was a latched key kid, except I never carried a key because we never locked our doors. When I was 10 I got a bad cut on my wrist. Put my hand through a plate glass window. Time came to get the stitches out. I walked home from school, called a cab, went to my doctor's office, asked the cabbie to wait, went in and got the stitches out, went home, gave the cabbie a nice tip and thought nothing of it. 1969.
Frank Shannon me too,Mom left for work before we got up. Made our own breakfast, walked over a mile to school, came home, did our homework, went out to play, just make sure you’re home for supper. But of course we died. /sac
‘Come home when the streetlights come on’. I look back fondly on my childhood - building tree houses, exploring a forest, playing baseball, catching minnows, playing street hockey, biking - all done without being tethered to some adult. I grieve for the kids of today.
Other than the first day of school, I walked to school by myself. Sometimes, I walked without water for over two miles!!! OMG!!! We also went to the beach, the playground, everywhere...even get on a bus and go downtown alone. And, guess what? I survived!
So true. When I was a kid I lived on a tropical island. I was given a machete when I was 7 and was shown how to sharpen and use it. I spent the next 3 years trekking through the rain forest on my own. I went to beach on my own. Many times I would be gone all day on Saturdays. I found my own food and water. That's how I learned to fish. When I immigrated to Canada I was 10. My mom walked me to school on the 1st day and that's all I needed. I now knew the general direction so I could do it on my own.
WAAOF --Isn’t that AMAZING!!! I’m so glad to have survived see saws, monkey bars, slides (we jumped off, who slides!??) no helmets, but also neighbors who were allowed ‘back in the day’ to yell at me “Didn’t you hear your mama!! Get home!”
@Jst A Guy Lmao an orphan is a kid who has no parents. Not a child with absent parents. Do you think that a child just becomes an orphan if both parents go to jail or something?
@Jst A Guy "It's not like they are stray kids. Their parents are still there." This person was saying that the kids hadn't been abandoned by their parents.
Life is dangerous. I remember when I was annoying my mom she'd tell me to "go play dodge car", of course I never did and she knew I wouldn't but now a days she'd be put in jail. We have no sense of humor, this is what communism does to us. I ended up being a military pilot and then an AMR captain, so I guess I did OK and never was kidnapped. Although, once I was offered a ride home by a guy in a business suit when I was walking six miles home from swimming practice (I was 14). I looked for the path through the bushes because I knew he couldn't follow me through that type of terrain, that's where I'd played all my life. I told the guy, "no thanks" and he drove off so he was probably just a decent man. BTW, if you are still alive, thanks for the offer.
The “would you gamble with your own child” comment is so misguided. You’re always gambling with every action and inaction. Yes, there’s a risk in having your kid walk home from school. But there’s also a risk in your kid joining the ranks of the skyrocketing depression, anxiety, and suicide rates of people who were raised to become incapable, timid, adults.
How about the parents that did everything correct ( Witch is impossible ) and took every step to protect there kids and still something bad happens . I think a sheltered kid is a uninformed kid and the bad that happens is usually because the kid does not know what they should do and trust a adult that does ends up doing the harm.. As a kid i always played with my friends and siblings. We traveled in a pack so to speak. One thing i could say was u mess with the pack u didn't come back...
"Would you gamble with your own child?" Sure. What are the odds? "Would you gamble with your own child." Of course. Social security has to stay solvent somehow. "Would you gamble with your own child?" Why not? Congress sure does.
Too much protection only screwed my life up. I can't talk to someone normaly when my aunt is close to me, even today for example. If the parents want to protect their children, they must prepare them to survive by themselves, they must develop their social skills or they will be bulied. And bullying is not even the worse thing, it actually helped me a lot developing social skills, one day these kids will need to get a job, find a girl/boyfriend, survive as an adult. Good for me, my life is not over, I will move far away from my family as soon as possible.
A child can get "rebellious" over too much supervision, not being trusted, and then do all those things you don't want them to later in life just so they can "prove themselves" in an overreaction. The law of homeostasis works here too.
Under Wood what would be the effect of too much freedom? A need to feel safer and restricted? Maybe theyll feel that although they have a lot of freedom they lack a sense of safety, a place of safety and become reclusive?
RedRed Mane RedRed Mane How is that? Too much freedom? Maybe kids could have that as they need boundaries to understand that they can't have their way. I read it wrong at first. But, I live with a wife that is an example of Under Wood's post.
Today I am 76 years old. I grew up Free Range. I drove our family car up and down the hundred foot driveway as a nine year old. Nobody watched over me. Yes, I scratched a fender once. I waxed and rubbed that fender to hide the damage. Later I learned my father knew about it. - Nothing was ever said! I hitched from Princeton WVA to Akron, Ohio with a friend. No problem. At twelve I rode my brother’s Harley 74 out on the nearby golf course many days. No damage to any grass. Just had a blast! At about five I walked to downtown Barberton to jump in the lake there. Never a problem. Many other examples - but, basically I was almost never closely supervised. I survived and believe I am better now than I would have been had I been monitored all the time.
Major Lagg yup. I try to teach people auto repairs to be a capable human being but everyone is like I'll just pay a shop. Come on have some motivation to fix your own problems
changing a tire is one thing, but unless you drive an older car, so many newer cars these days all have computers hooked up to them making it a bit more difficult to troubleshoot and/or repair alot of stuff these days. Can't fix a power adjusting seat or electric power steering with just a wrench and some grease.
@@doorran LOL No we drank from outside faucets water from a water hose meme on Facebook it's real we did that , that's why we didn't have bacterial infections , lol Our parents didn't worship us - they let us know I brought ya ass in this world I'll take out ua-cam.com/video/u-ryuJDTpEc/v-deo.html
Temperature in my country is measured in Celsius and the hottest day ever registered was more than 45°C. I admit my eyebrow went up when I read the "on a daily basis 100 degree" part.
When I was 8 years old, I was walking to and from school everyday, the trip was over 2 miles... I enjoyed those times, I got to explore new routes, meet new people, it gave me a sense of freedom and independence.. I worship freedom and independence and I fight hard to preserve these values.
IKR I love the freedom that comes from driving. Always have. Before I owned a car, I used to take the bus to college. As soon as I started driving myself, I swore off the bus forever. I hate the thought of being dependent on someone else to get me there on time.
She's a "family therapist"?!? God help those families who go for therapy to her!!! She's the kind of person I'll warn my kids about so they'll stay away from her and those who think like her!
@P. Spit You seem to be assuming that parents should let kids behave 'free-range' regardless of the situation. Nobody said that or acted it out in this video. Then again, Sonya Carson's kids turned out pretty well.
P1. In the 50s kids would just come home by the time the streetlights turned off. P2. There is less crime now than then. C1: Therefore, the tendency to shelter kids is complete BS.
Parents should know which options to give their kids and when not to give them options. Give them the option of going out and doing what they want to do while socializing, but dont give them the option to stay sheltered and not talk to people all day.
Social skills do not come for free. J Peterson says that children must be socialized before the age of four. Then it's too late and they will always be behind peers.
I'm 54 and my mom told me once when we were chatting about this decades later. Jeff she said, there were bad people even back when you were a kid. But I never let you go out without one or two friends. That way I knew you all would look out for each other and grow. I always remember that and value that my mother was a great mom for that.
lol I used to walk to the store over a mile away to buy cigarettes and chew for my grandpa, then spend the rest of what he gave me on something to drink, some fireworks, and a slingshot if I had lost or broke my previous one. worst thing that ever happened was I got stung by a wasp, and it wasn't like I was defenseless I had HE slingshot ammo
PHOBOS Me too, well, I was sent to the corner store for milk, bread or whatever. Lol. My grandpa tried to teach me how to chew Redman and I took a little chunk and chewed it up and he said "ok, now spit" and I spit it all out. He started laughing at me. He's gone now but experiences like that stick with you and you feel really good about yourself having that independence. Now kids are scared of their shadows and need playdo and gummy bears if someone says something they don't agree with factual or not. It's a damn shame.
I normally watch Stossel's videos just to agree with him. This one actually opened my eyes a bit. Funny how a Libertarian approach works well with kids too.
I wouldn't gamble the health of my family by seeing that crazy, over-the-top family therapist! Take it down a few notches, lady. I hope she has a therapist of her own. Geez...
It used to be embarrassing and shameful to have your parents chaperone you anywhere, now most kids are driven to school even if they live right down the street. Then there are parents who drive their kid to the bus stop, and wait there until the bus comes, even when there are a bunch of kids there. Most of these adults are hypocrites anyway, because they were probably able to live more freely as children, turned out fine, and yet they force their children to live by a different set of rules. Hollywood is clearly hypocritical too, since they make movies all the time that depict children wandering alone, and fighting off the bad guys on their own.
I would argue that they apparently DIDN'T grow up fine, considering how they are raising their own children now... Your point still stands beyond the word play though. Very rarely do I see children playing outside anymore. You couldn't keep my brothers and I indoors. At 11, 9(me) and 7, Mom and Pops started coming home from work every couple of months and say "We're going after cigarettes. See you when we get back. The house BETTER be spotless...", and we wouldn't see them until usually late evening Sundays. USUALLY rofl! Hell to pay if they came home early. I always walked to school rather than take the bus. Some less than a mile away, most a bit more. Started in the first grade. They really didn't restrict our movements much. They wanted to know where we were going to be, and when we were going to be home. The actual "where" wasn't really a consideration unless it had proven to be trouble already. Call if plans change mid stream and your eta home will NOT change. We had rules and the freedom of choice to break them, so long as we were willing to accept the consequences of our actions and don't lie. Sadly, mine is the first generation to have some of us raised under the "wisdom" of one Dr. Benjamin Spock.
we need to teach our kids what is right, teach them to be safe and how to handle themselves. and then, we need to let them take action. if your kids never get the opportunity to act on their own, they will always be dependent on someone else to tell them/ or do stuff for them.
The free-range childhoods were already gone when I was a kid in the 90's. I'm glad that some people are trying to revive it. I hope I can give my own children a chance to play like this.
I feel like even if you don't want to be a free range parent, it is still important to give your child freedom. By the time I was 12, I could spend a lot of time with my friends with no adults around. By 13, my friends and I would go to the creek, go biking, go to the pool, ect with no parents around. We did have fights and issues, but learning to resolve and move past them made us stronger.
So glad I grew up in the era of being free range, though it wasn't called that. We walked to school, we played from yard to yard, we could go to the park and zoo nearby as long as we went in twos or threes. We had a huge yard, and many neighbor kids came to play. The two weeping willow trees sparked our imaginations. One day, a castle, or fort, a store, etc. I did catch my mom looking out and keeping an eye on us. Playing in the yard may not sound like much, but there was a gully behind our yard with the park beyond. Now there are cell phones if kids get in trouble. And I'm sure their parents warned them about potential dangers before setting them free. Here is one reason we have so many snowflake college students who must have safe places to run to. When you totally sanitize your child from life, you are not doing them any favors for their future. But maybe these parents want their kids to live in their basements forever,
Tell me if I'm wrong, but doesn't arresting and fining the parents affect the child more than giving them a little bit of freedom, and maybe the kid being a bit worried before they finally get home or whatever they were doing? Government: "you can't let your child walk home on their own, you're clearly not raising them well enough. In the interest of the child, we'll be taking the kid away fm your control and fining you so that you have less money to spend on them. Thank us when your child isn't abducted."
Of course the irony is that the State is doing exactly what they claim they are preventing... taking the child away from the parent... abducting them if you will. They may claim it is for the protection of the child, but is the child better off being taking away by strangers with badges than he is by a stranger with candy? Either way, the child is still taken by someone they probably don't know and may not have any idea when or if they will see their parents again. Abducting a child so the child won't be abducted... there's governmental logic for you.
And as I just said, galx5199, to protect the kids from the pedophiles that their parents supposedly placed them right in the path of, they put the kids in foster homes, where all too often, they end up being molested ....BY THE FOSTER PARENTS!!! Great protection, huh!!!
@@Victor-iq5rd I attend a church where every offering of childcare is provided by certified and registered providers who volunteer their time. There's a great automated system that prints out matching id stickers for parent & child. Just can't do right by some people.
And the kids in Kenya are raped, eaten by animals, and abducted. What’s your point? I would rather be there for my child, and make sure that if something happens. I’m there to protect, and help them. They can still learn to be independent when they are supervised. It doesn’t even have to be a parent. Why do you think that the teachers in middle schools are supervising the kids while they play?
By the time I was 11 my patents both worked until 10 or 11pm. I washed the clothes, made dinner, cared for my 5,3,& under 1 yr old siblings, bought groceries, and cleaned.the diapers. (Yes, this was when they were cloth, before everyone just threw them away) I managed a home and school. I find myself dismayed at the incompetentce if my children's friends and classmates and their parents unwillingness to let their kids do ANYTHING. They are creating a generation of dependent whiners.
Great example of why parents need to think before they have a litter of kids. I was in a similar situation as the oldest of 5 kids, stuck babysitting them all the time. This was the 90s
When I was 10 years old, I decided my mother wasn't taking care of me, so I walked a mile to my grandparent's... That is the smartest decision I have ever made!
Zachary Clark yes I suppose a little girl is supposed to somehow be able to fend off a grown ass male predator 🤷🏾♂️ Apparently west just throwing all type of logic out of left window.
I was a free range child and I’m happy to say I’m a conservative that looks up things before I trust someone’s word the media and government can milk votes from other kids but that’s not me I don’t buy into the gender fluid or radical movements made by the newer generation I look deeply into the past and make sure it’s not repeated, I know how to defend myself and I support free range children if you teach them how to stay safe.
I was such a free range kid when I grew up. I spent most of my free time in the forest and fields, by myself, with friends. Building forts (using an axe to cut down trees), rowing the boat on the lake to catch fish and turtles. I was supposed to be home in time for dinner. Doctor Phil is nuts. Yes, you could have horrible results,, but the real odds are about like being struck by lightning.
I once told the cop questioning my child's freedom that if the state wanted to pay me 1000.00 per month for each child they could tell me how to raise them otherwise get lost. I know have grand kids from both of them.
WTF is wrong with people? My brother and I were free like this when we were kids. This is sick what people are doing now. In fact, we'd cook by ourselves too - and I mean with the stove and the oven (the real oven).
The empty streets void of all children ( even on Saturdays and Sundays )is testimonial to the fact that EVERY parent in America is raising their kids "lock-down-style." Unfortunately, "The Village" has spoken. Not much anyone can do.
@@redredmane2009 I have let my children do things alone only to have a helicopter parent threaten to call the police. This is the problem us free range parents face.
In the 70s I was blessed with free ranging. We went out in the morning rode our bikes and did not come home until a bit before sundown. The freedom was exhilarating. I had two paper routes at 12, played sports and basically ran my own life. Big dividends due to this independence. Additionally our parents were always there if needed.
Okay, so the government gets to decide when a child is old enough or mature enough to do certain things. So then tell me, what is the age where children are 'mature' enough to play safely in the front yard by themselves? Please give me the exact number down to the millisecond.
I used to shoot a bb gun, climb trees, and just run around outside away from adults for hours on end unsupervised. Once, when I was 4 (I was probably checked on regularly at this point)I was chasing a cat around the outside of the house. When I turned a corner, I slipped, and pushed into some sheets of tin laying on the ground. It cut below my knee, deep enough to see bone. I remember thinking "this isn't good" and then screamed "MOM!" She came and took me to the hospital. It bled somewhat profusely. Before she got a towel from the house and applied pressure to it, I thought the blood looked like a volcano coming out of my leg. Apparently, my eyes were rolling to the back of my head. I hated the wound irrigation. A few stitches (which I think were put in by a vietnam veteran, I was lucky), and I was good. For about a decade it would hurt for a short while before a rain, other than that it was perfectly fine. In the end, it all worked out. And even if it hadn't, I wouldn't have wanted my parents to baby me to try and keep me safe. Sidenote, I even stuck a steak knife into an electrical socket, bit like a son of a bitch but I was okay. :)
@@goatskin4487 Lots of people who sustain injuries have that. You can have pain due to the change in barometric pressure. Wasn't 100% accurate, but the weather forecasters aren't either. :)
@@HuntingTarg I do my own electrical work now, and am fully aware of how fortunate I was. Thank God I didn't touch the hot and neutral at the same time, and was on a dry floor.
You're not rushing them into being adults, lady, learning independence skills is important for all children, sure there can be a healthy middle ground but too much hovering and they'll be over dependent. Back in the day it was totally normal to walk by yourself to the library and get a book or walk home from school by yourself. If you're thinking they aren't getting a chance to have fun as kids because of too much responsibility, it's the opposite: they like this, they're having fun. And get outta here with that slippery slope. Being on their own to learn how to spend money, talk to people, to learn to protect each other and stay safe, learn what to do if one of them gets hurt or another emergency, staying healthy, exercising in the outdoors, etc...you don't think those are important skills to learn? Contrast them to an overprotected kid who spends the time they aren't with an adult on their video games. Maybe it could be dangerous for a younger kid to wander alone, but if they've been learning the important skills, they'll be safer and know what to do compared to if they've never been alone before. Besides, nobody is saying there shouldn't be rules like curfew.
The Art of Ａｇｏｒａｐｈｏｂｉａ Can confirm. 20 now, helicopter mom and few friends meant I spent most of my time with Nintendo. I now have no social skills, and have to learn basic life skills late because I did nothing as a kid.
i hate the mother of my child, she is an over protective parent, my kid tripped and skinned his knee, she screamed at me, saying i wasnt watching him, i said, i watched him trip and fall
We live in the age of adult morons. It's amazing that our species wasn't snuffed out years ago. As a child after breakfast on Saturday, we were gone! We knew we had to home for dinner. Got hungry, we went home. Thirsty, there was always a hose to be found, people just didn't care if a child was drinking in their front yard. I remember when I was 10 and I wanted to six flags with my friend and his mom wouldn't let him ride public transit with me(20 miles away and 2 transfers), my mom was so put out with the lady, because she now had to drive us. WORLD'S GREATEST MOM!! 92 years old and still my greatest role model in life
I have to agree that kids should be able to work things out for themselves. This has been an issue for years and getting worse by the year. If you look at "adults" today. They aren't as strong or as confident as older generations which is sad to see, I'm speaking from experience on this since I had to same overbearing parents.
I find I am of 2 minds on this topic. One part agrees that yes, kids must be taught to be independent and self-reliant. The other part is thinking it's all fun and games until someone ends up on a milk carton
Vanessa Yaeggy I’m having the same dilemma. Maybe the trick is to have your kids feel like they aren’t being supervised when they actually are? My mom told me she used to tell the neighbors to just keep an eye on us, and this happened after high school! So when I thought I was all grown up and being by myself or with friends without an adult watching, I actually was being looked after the whole time.
I've walked 5 miles from city to city when I walked home from school, it is relaxing and I think to myself the entire way, it's better than sitting at home doing the same thing. I feel safe when I do it, mostly because I am safe and also I'm intimidating, well fed, and strong.....
That second woman is very dramatic. I used to run errands for my Mama in the summers while she was working. I walked to school and the grocery store. It was the best feeling and i feel so sorry for all the children who have never known such freedom. All those kids in this video stick together. There is strength in numbers.
This just in..... A pack of wild ravenous children were spotted heading north on Main Street. If you encounter one of these animals you are encouraged to not look them in the eyes, find shelter and dial 911 immediately.
when I got my first bike I would ride 2-3 miles to the pool, the park, my fiends house. I don't see how people think coddling and babying kids is gonna make them safer by not knowing how to handle themselves.
Unfortunately, it's that the way the law ( to the tune of our indoctrinated "concerned citizens" )DICTATES that we are to raise our kids!!! We haven't any choice, I'm afraid. That's life under the DarkSide, Luke.
I was Free Range my entire Childhood. My Mother had 2 jobs, she stocked the house with food I can easily feed myself, left the doors unlocked and Told me to be back when the Streetlights are on them she'd go to her 2nd job and be back by Suppertime. I was never messed with (Except being chased by 6 foot Diamondbacks) because we literally had a Wild Desert past the fence of our backyard and I've never got hurt once. When she dropped me off at my Grandparents house, they left the front door unlocked and it was the same treatment and I went All over the neighborhood on my bike and was back by Streetlight time. The furthest I've ventured was 10 miles away. My Mother never asked where I was because she knew I that I knew where home was or where I was staying the Night... I would Never trade those experiences for the World.
In the 60's most of us were "free range" kids. We were called 'latch key" kids. We made some bad choices, but no one was lost, hurt badly or killed. We played in our neighbor's yards, walked to the park THREE WHOLE BLOCKS AWAY. We played on the swings where we tried to "loop" them, no one got hurt trying. We would jump from the highest point of our swinging to see who could get the most distance. No broken arms or legs. Maybe someone got a bump on their head from walking in front of a swing. Climbed trees like monkeys. Played with kids we knew from school who may not have been someone our parents would have allowed us to play with. We learned who NOT to play with. Neighbors would look out their windows from time to time just to make sure there was no trouble happening. It's a different world. And I grew up in urban NEW JERSEY, not some little town where everyone knew who you were. Good job by these parents. I would get more parents involved in watching out for the neighborhood, children included, but no need to hover over kids who show they can assume some responsibility.
I see plenty of "free range" kids when I go shopping... It only works when the parents aren't huge shit bags to begin with and that seems to becoming more and more rare.
When I was a kid my dad said if you don't come home by midnight, dont come so I wouldn't wake him up. I stayed out all night all the time. I was 12, I'm 53 and still alive.
One of the principal causes of obsessive parenting is the automobile: parents believe kids must be driven everywhere, but if children are left to travel alone, are threatened by traffic.
I was eight, alone and watched a severely handicapped brother two years my elder. Cooked, cleaned, changed his diapers, washed him, and gave him his pills. Why? Because, my mom and dad worked! They couldn’t stay home, at least they didn’t use him as the excuse to stay home and Your parents paying for it. As young as four and five living in Springfield, OH and always in the woods with my brother and neighborhood friends. Long walks on the railroad tracks, fishing, playing army., catching crawdads, and living. Third grade and I waded a flowing Elkhorn Creek to walk to Peaks Mill Elementary that I could see from my bus stop. Walked home the same way, too. It is actually scary to see kids who live in a bunker. You can see the immaturity. This was norm until idiots came along.
My name is Mike, your life sounds like mine but in Grand Rapids Michigan, born in 1951 by 10 my friends and I would travel around the city from end to end, we'd go to shows or the museum or maybe to a girlfriends, some times I would do these things by myself,my life has been great.
One thing I did notice there.. The 'free range' children were also not obese either. The looked like... kids. They had social skills, good communications and seemed to handle money well.
They don't have their Mama cutting their food in bite size pieces. LOL
I think there is a happy middle ground to this
Exactly. They're not these babied, coddled, sensitive snowflakes, nd they're way more adept to life. It is what all kids should be like. The parents who coddle their children are creating entitled, bratty, incompetent, and scared children with no life skills and no sense of the real world. They can't take no for an answer and they will certainly not have a good time trying to find a job when they know so little about anything. This is how millenials were made.
honestly though my mom was not at all keeping me at home, she would have loved me going outside, but I never really wanted to go, I would have rather read a book
People in general might not be obese there.
I’m pretty sure that only 20% of children are obese. And by “only,” I don’t mean that that’s a small percentage, but that the overwhelming majority of children are not obese. Thus... I’m not sure how relevant that observation is.
The woman who is against free range parenting is the kind of person i would not want my children around lol
She scares me, and I'm almost a grown man😟😂😂just playing, but she seriously reminds me of those REALLY ANNOYING mom's that even their own kids don't like
Andrew Craft She seemed insane!
One of those people that you really wonder what the heck happened to them to make them that way . A giant ego or power trip ?
I wouldn't like to be around her either!
She doesn't even display control over her own emotions, but she's lecturing others on how they aren't fit to be parents.
The retro term for free range back in my day was normal
Matt Hudson IKR, kids these days are so sissified and what's really scary is that they don't understand or value the freedom of people being independent. They have the feeling of needing to be coddled and told what to do at all times so the idea of people being able to do and say what they want seems sort of wrong to them. That why they are willing to give up free speech in way of inacting "hate speech laws" and anyone that says anything you don't like is an actual threat to you. So they label them Nazis to excuse using violence on them. It's already the rule on college campuses. What is really worrisome is these see people are voting and will be running for office someday. The only hope is they experience the real world and learn some values about personal liberty and what natural rights mean before then.
Japanese kids under 12 still travel for hours by themselves daily.
@Justin Beaird i've been perfectly fine i've walked around my home town since i was little whats the problem here, these parents are idiots. I have friends who's parents are like this, i can now drive so I without their parents permission take them on a trip around the province every weekend because they wouldn't allow it. I have driven 2+ hrs away for a day trip all the while telling there parents they were wondering around the town or just out in the woods. Fuck the parents its their choice.
Normal? that is definitely retro
Can I get 75 subs for no reason the japanese still have their shit together relatively.
Kid couldn’t walk a mile and a half without water said the cop.
When I was a kid, 2 slurps out of the garden hose, and I was good all day
Right? It makes you wonder where (and how) that cop grew up. We would go for hours (and miles) all day without water when we were kids. Even at my age today, I can make 1.5 miles without carrying water, and I definitely need more hydration now than I did at 10.
Right. i could still walk a couple blocks around my neighborhood and if I really need water i can stop by the church back here in the woods and take a drink out the hose
Fuck yessss!!!!!! We would always drink water from the hose from one of our older neighbors it was funnn!!!! I loved that and i miss it sooo muuuchhh!!!!
Hoze water is the best water !
When I was a kid, we DIED of HEAT STROKE kids today are so WEAK because they need WATER! PULEAAASE
"What if the kids hurts himself?"
"Well, then they know not to do that the next time."
My parenting style in a nutshell. Failure is the best teacher.
However, that has limits. As an extreme example:
"Your kid shot himself in the face."
"Now he knows not to do that."
@Flatus Antiquitous But if the child is not taught the proper skills and information, then that wouldn't really be Darwinism since a gun is outside the natural status i.e. it's not a naturally occurring thing.
I would prefer they at least had a cellphone on them, so they can call the parents if needed.
Success is also great teacher. More importantly, realising your own identity, independent of success and failure is also very valuable.
@@agsilverradio2225 But doesn't that cause addiction, cancer, blindness, and death?
OMG - therapist "Dr." Karen Ruskin is unhinged.
How can someone be a therapist when they can't even control their own emotional outbursts?
Just wanna point out it kinda seems like the interview was much longer and they cut out what was working her up
@@gaarmmaarg5347 yes, in the interest of time it was shortened. Not really any other way to do it and keep a segment to a decent length.
@@jaydunbar7538 And she looked unhinged on fox too
Yes, lets site the most extreme incident possible 🙄 maybe kids shouldn't leave the house for fear of getting hit by meteorites
Lol I felt the same thing
The crazy hyperactive woman talking to John is like that meme where a woman screams at a cat eating its salad
Omg your correct lol
His face change at 3:50 tho XD
"Oh, she's CRAZY crazy"
After all, her name is Karen
I had to check the comments just to see if I was the only one that thought she was crazy
Lol a strait up karen
Back when I was little we called that "life".
I was thinking exactly the same thing I was walking more than a mile to school Back home and then to my friends every day
We weren't even given a choice. Our parents were always telling us to get out of their hair. We went everywhere...
I somehow wish it was possible for my kids to still be able to have such great times Sadly half of what was seen as kids having fun back then is now illegal. The River we swam in is now poisoned and the mountains access have been severely restricted Its sooo sad
Gee, nowadays the government is IMPORTING pedophiles!! We need to take our country back from the liberal, retarded, insane Left! Government IS the problem!!!
SgtPiggie Amen to that brother and when I was little I was roaming the streets after a fun day at the park and saw a gate open with an angry dog in it and told my brother to run backwards and thank god the dog didn't notice the open gate but ran to chase us behind the closed wall.
I love how that one lady turns it from going to the library by themselves to go ahead and smoke cigarettes and driving my car
Right
Haha !!
It’s fun to do bad things...
Her name is Karen for a reason
She'd hate how I was raised. We wandered the side of a mountain with knives and pellet guns. Unsurprisingly we never had any issues. My mom also is a therapist.
"Letting a kid walk 1 mile home is not in the best interest of the child so let's arrest the father."
Why not in that case just let them return home and notify the parents?
and 1 mile isnt a lot either, for a 7-9 year old to walk a mile it takes probably 20 minutes, its the same thing as walking to and back from school yet ive never seen anyone with a problem with that
What the best interest of the Child is, is not the state's to decide
I love how the cop points out the child had no food or water...a 20 min walk does not require a snack break and hydration check. SMH 🤦🏻♀️
@@cindymilburn7420 exactly ... like wtf
My favorite is the cop who thought a kid would die from starvation and/or dehydration before he finished walking the mile to his house.
There are kids who can run that distance without taking breaks for food or water.
If its in Florida and in the summer heat I think a child could easily pass out from that. When I was a kid I always took a water bottle with me outside.
Dude I have to agree almost 2 miles for a seven year old is a bit much
Lol. Back in the day, we would walk miles by ourselves. Do chores for my mom by going to the post office a mile away, or to the bank to help make deposits.
That's one reason we have "safe spaces" now.. Lol
Participation trophies are a big reason also...
6:33 "The child lived approximately a mile and a half from the location. That's a great distance for a 7 year old to travel without water or nourishment." lol Does this cop not realize how ridiculous he sounds? The kid is on a shaded sidewalk. He's not traversing the Gobi Desert. 1.5 miles? Nourishment? lol
That's exactly what I thought. A mile and a half is about 20 to 30 minutes. When I was a kid, we used to walk to our local convenience store (about 3/4 of a mile) to get root beer for dad and maybe a pop for ourselves. 2 miles to school? No problems there, I did that because it was faster than the bus. Now you see kids being driven to the bottom of their driveways for the bus to puck up. Don't get me started on busses stopping every fricking house to get one kid. My bus stop was at the convenience store. We didn't carry water and 'nourishment' with us.
Oh no, I just realized that my parents were irresponsible!
When I was a kid, I had a longer walk than that to and from the school bus. I did it every day, as did every other kid I knew. In the 70s, that's what you did.
When kids don't learn to scope out their environments that's the real danger. Oh, remember Elizabeth Smart? She was abducted out of her own bed. No one is actually safe anywhere. We all need an FBI agent guarding each of us while we sleep.
I walked home farther than that every day as a child.
Gee only 1.5 miles? We roamed farther than that every summer day!
100% agree with these parents! When I was young I would jump on my bike and go missing for hours to play... it teaches you to make the right choices.... there's clearly limits, but people hovering over their kids raises soft kids
I headed for the "back 40"......not to be seen until after dark. BB guns, knives and all......shotguns when a teenager. The good ole days before the internet and cell phones 60s-70s
A pastor of mine gave the best advice, he said his job as a parent was to raise adults, not children. and as parents, that's what we should be doing.
Wise man
and best yet, raise them to be parents of their own one day.
You dont raise adults when they are children. They gradually learn. I dont believe this method. You treat them like kids because they are kids! All with supervision
@@lustrousandlovely6847 your end goal is to have adults, not children, so shouldn't we be teaching them valuable skills wherever we can? you cant treat them like kids forever, sooner or later you have to treat them like adults, and the best way to do it is to do it gradually, give them a few responsibilities and adult freedoms slowly over time.
They will turn into adults. So they should know how to be adults and like adults
" I want to smoke, I want to drive your car" lady, please, tell me where did anybody, say anything, about letting their kids do anything like that!? Nowhere that's where. Please, calm down
Example of free range kids.
@@chrissmith8830 elaborate please?
Funny how her name had to be Karen...
That woman was incredibly annoying
free range or not, they might take on smoking, if they are informed, they might not, and I guess free range kids would be more confident in resisting social pressure.
I was a free range kid. Oh wait. I was a child in the 70's and it was normal then.
Dale Boice YEA ! i am a female i walk every where i went,,, the mall,, movies ,, friends ,, SOME TIMES UP TO 5 MILES HERE N THERE WHEN I WAS TEEN
I agree. I walked or rode a bike way more than a mile. As did every other child around me in the 70's. I guess we all died and this new experimental group is trying to get some to survive huh?
Only the dumb ones didn't survive. Lol School was a mile and a half away, hot or cold, we walked to school. At least a third of us in elementary school, all ages, walked to school everyday. The older kids walked with the younger kids. This was all normal in the 70's.
Its still normal in most parts of the world, only in america do they allow the media to drive up meaningless fears to such an insane degree.
At least the control of the media has become fucking obvious now.
I was a child of the NINETIES and it was normal then. hell, I went to places on my own as soon as _eighteen_ years ago. What the fuck happened?
The cop is flat wrong. I was a kid. I have had and raised kids. The cop is being ignorant. And it is certainly NOT within his scope to make that accusation or charge. He can do anything he wants with his kids. Not mine.
Have the cop work near an elementary school, he's going to be very busy arresting parents who let their kids walk to school. He will make his quota for arrests in one day.
I thought it was funny that he added "without water or food", when it was only 1.5 miles. When I was a kid, I would go on long walks with my dad, and we would walk for a lot longer than 1.5 miles without stopping to eat or drink.
When I was in elementary school, I would walk and take the bus to school. When I got to the stop near my school, I would take a detour so that I could pet one of the neighborhood cats. No one even came close to giving me any trouble.
@@OrthodoxofUSA Exactly! I'm thinking "1.5 miles? That's a 35 minute walk... Who needs food and water for 35 minutes, even in the heat of the day?"
@@M4CB You're absolutely right. Most people can go for a few hours without food or water with no trouble.
@@Mwoods2272 So now this father is going to have to spend his child's college tuition fund on a defense attorney. Just to have this cop put another feather in his cap. Another trashy cop.
Damn that girl dropping some hard core philosophical wisdom there at the end
"You can never get lost if you know where everything is"
That therapist was insane. My parents have degrees in psychology, that goodness they’re not all like that.
Yes, that therapist was actually the one acting like a spoiled brat throwing a temper tantrum when she supposed to be the adult, where these free-range children were acting like human beings & being normal kids, while answering Jon's questions in a fun way.
When I was a kid we were all "free range" kids.
Is this non-free range kids just an America thing, i haven't seen it anywhere before?
@@neversimpgamingyt I grew up in England, and between the ages of 7-12 in Spain (I think 2006 to 2010, I could be slightly off), and the constant parental supervision is something I didn't see in either culture.
In Spain, from the first year we lived there, I would hang out with the local kids playing cops and robbers till well past midnight in the summer, playing in the ruins of houses abandoned for close to century due to Francos urbanisation policies. My personal favourite to hide in was a house where a wooden beam had fallen and taken out two floors below, forming a bridge to the top floor and making it the only way to get up there.
Amen to that. I used to ride my bike blocks away, walk down the creek, walk to the public pool on weekends as long as we were home by lunch and dinner or before dark we're were golden.
Yea yea ... I was born 1993 ... And being free range has its benifits ... But it also has its negatives ...
Free range? You mean NORMAL?
HELL...When I was growing up, I wouldn't see my mom all damn weekend sometimes! We would literally pack a bag and spend the weekend in the woods, swimming in the creek, riding bikes miles from home, building forts, climbing trees, etc!
Only the "weird" kids weren't allowed to come play with us!
Could this explain why the current generation of undergraduates appears to contain a cohort of fragile, neurotic narcissists whose very existence is threatened by the possibility someone might disagree with them?
Its like Firearm saftey, you teach them the How's and why's, they feel the firearm isnt dangerous.
When asshole bullies are the target of shootings, don't complain.
Its a product of sheltered lives that are not real in any way. The typical intellectual does though experiments, thinks in a study by themselves reads the philosophers and think they have all the answers. Problem is, they never leave their desks and actually explore the real world. They live in a make believe fantasy world.
They are "reflections" of the way that their super-anal parents always acted around them, avro549B.
There's a little bit more to it than that, but yes, that's part of it. Insane socio-politics is treating kids like they have the life-making decision capacity of adults (when honestly even adults find many decision very difficult), and adults as needing protection as if they were kids. It also has so much to do with the breakdown of the stable family that has been only getting worse since it began in the late 60's. The early 1970's was the last gasp of common free-range childhood in the West.
and yet now a 4 year can decide weather it is a boy or a girl?
DID YOU JUST ASSUME GENDER?!?
*Whether
Exactly!!
Barry Stamour and that’s what is wrong today.
@@andrewoduro7320 weather or not it's day matters u ass
"That was a great distance (1.5 miles) for a 7 year old to walk without any water, or nourishment" this cant be real, this kid isnt backpacking accross the Appalachian mountains, he's walking on paved roads. Whats he gonna die from dehydration or starvation. And this is a police officer, a group of people who should be required to have a good amount of common sense.
Of the Idiot Majority, the cops are the most "indoctrinated", willlman831. They should have a good amount of common sense, but under the circumstances, they DON'T.
I would walk or bike to my friend's house nearly 2 miles away on a regular basis, no helmet, no knee pads, no elbow pads. Fell off by bike 2 times in five years. That how you learn.
I use to walk five miles, uphill to school, with a load of bricks on my back - then after school, another five miles uphill back home, but no bricks. Ha Ha
Ahahahahahahahahahahaha *inhales*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Plus, there were cops on every corner, in case he needed any kind of assistance...
I have a friend that practically held her kids hands through their whole lives.. Both are grown now and both have trouble handling the simplest task on their own. She'll be an old lady and still be doing every thing for them. Essentially, she'll never have a life of her own because she'll have to manage those kids until they die.
My sister is the same. Has all her teenage son's passwords, access to all his contacts, personal information, etc. She spies on his conversations through apps and signing into his accounts, has cameras installed to watch him, doesn't allow him to go to see his friends... needless to say he resents her with a passion and rightly so - he's no angel, mind you. She's turned him and all her children into absolute monsters with no sense of accountability at all.
Sheltered children often grow up to be the worst of people. They never learn self responsibility.
I had the opposite, me and my sister named our experience “Neglect for convenience”. There were some pros, I can cook better than most people my age, knows how to use all household tools, etc. But I think it was mostly a negative experience, even if I know a lot, it can’t fix the rest of it.
My whole generation grew up free range.
People should mind there own business.
ABSOLUTELY !
Exactly!!
All but the ones that went missing.
@@chrissmith8830 I prefer dangerous freedom over safe tyranny and slavery.
@@teestjulian you say that until you end upo. The news crying about the missing kids gaining the sympathy of idiots that supported your ideology. Go somewhere else with your half ass clever comments and grow a brain you twat😂🤣
4:00. The look on John's face cracks me up. The psychologist is acting less mature than the children
That woman does not look normal.
Bill Rhoasts she needs to see a therapist herself. Definitely wouldn’t hire her for any therapy at all. She seems psychotic.
I don't see a "look". He is expressionless.
When I was a child in the 80s and early 90s I would go off on my own for hours at a time. Never had a problem. Statistically speaking. Your child is more in danger with someone they know over walking around strangers.
Good luck convincing 99.99.99 % of the parents of that!!!
I was a latched key kid, except I never carried a key because we never locked our doors. When I was 10 I got a bad cut on my wrist. Put my hand through a plate glass window. Time came to get the stitches out. I walked home from school, called a cab, went to my doctor's office, asked the cabbie to wait, went in and got the stitches out, went home, gave the cabbie a nice tip and thought nothing of it. 1969.
Frank Shannon me too,Mom left for work before we got up. Made our own breakfast, walked over a mile to school, came home, did our homework, went out to play, just make sure you’re home for supper. But of course we died. /sac
I think you should teach your kid basics like don't get in a random van, but also let them create their own life and not rely on their parents 24/7
‘Come home when the streetlights come on’. I look back fondly on my childhood - building tree houses, exploring a forest, playing baseball, catching minnows, playing street hockey, biking - all done without being tethered to some adult. I grieve for the kids of today.
I would ride my bicycle everywhere when I was 9.
Now we have 30 year olds living in the basement
Other than the first day of school, I walked to school by myself. Sometimes, I walked without water for over two miles!!! OMG!!! We also went to the beach, the playground, everywhere...even get on a bus and go downtown alone. And, guess what? I survived!
So true. When I was a kid I lived on a tropical island. I was given a machete when I was 7 and was shown how to sharpen and use it. I spent the next 3 years trekking through the rain forest on my own. I went to beach on my own. Many times I would be gone all day on Saturdays. I found my own food and water. That's how I learned to fish.
When I immigrated to Canada I was 10. My mom walked me to school on the 1st day and that's all I needed. I now knew the general direction so I could do it on my own.
WAAOF --Isn’t that AMAZING!!! I’m so glad to have survived see saws, monkey bars, slides (we jumped off, who slides!??) no helmets, but also neighbors who were allowed ‘back in the day’ to yell at me “Didn’t you hear your mama!! Get home!”
Was your school uphill, both ways, like mine was?
Lol you needed to hve your mom walk you, I walked by myself the first time.
heyidiot and in the snow.
I think it should be a balance. Don't hover them, but be there for them too.
It's not like they are stray kids. Their parents are still there.
Agreed.
@Jst A Guy Lmao an orphan is a kid who has no parents. Not a child with absent parents. Do you think that a child just becomes an orphan if both parents go to jail or something?
@Jst A Guy "It's not like they are stray kids. Their parents are still there." This person was saying that the kids hadn't been abandoned by their parents.
Yeah, give them some form of communication to call their parents and (if needed) the police
Life is dangerous. I remember when I was annoying my mom she'd tell me to "go play dodge car", of course I never did and she knew I wouldn't but now a days she'd be put in jail. We have no sense of humor, this is what communism does to us. I ended up being a military pilot and then an AMR captain, so I guess I did OK and never was kidnapped. Although, once I was offered a ride home by a guy in a business suit when I was walking six miles home from swimming practice (I was 14). I looked for the path through the bushes because I knew he couldn't follow me through that type of terrain, that's where I'd played all my life. I told the guy, "no thanks" and he drove off so he was probably just a decent man. BTW, if you are still alive, thanks for the offer.
This isn't Communism, this is Corporatism.
We all grew up "free range" and the street lights were our clock.
That was before the time of the cell phone. All well-behaved children came home on time.
The “would you gamble with your own child” comment is so misguided. You’re always gambling with every action and inaction. Yes, there’s a risk in having your kid walk home from school. But there’s also a risk in your kid joining the ranks of the skyrocketing depression, anxiety, and suicide rates of people who were raised to become incapable, timid, adults.
How about the parents that did everything correct ( Witch is impossible ) and took every step to protect there kids and still something bad happens . I think a sheltered kid is a uninformed kid and the bad that happens is usually because the kid does not know what they should do and trust a adult that does ends up doing the harm.. As a kid i always played with my friends and siblings. We traveled in a pack so to speak. One thing i could say was u mess with the pack u didn't come back...
'Where there's life, there is risk.' A zero-risk scenario doesn't exist for living things.
"Would you gamble with your own child?"
Sure. What are the odds?
"Would you gamble with your own child."
Of course. Social security has to stay solvent somehow.
"Would you gamble with your own child?"
Why not? Congress sure does.
Too much protection only screwed my life up. I can't talk to someone normaly when my aunt is close to me, even today for example. If the parents want to protect their children, they must prepare them to survive by themselves, they must develop their social skills or they will be bulied. And bullying is not even the worse thing, it actually helped me a lot developing social skills, one day these kids will need to get a job, find a girl/boyfriend, survive as an adult. Good for me, my life is not over, I will move far away from my family as soon as possible.
Your gonna be ok. Best of luck.
A child can get "rebellious" over too much supervision, not being trusted, and then do all those things you don't want them to later in life just so they can "prove themselves" in an overreaction. The law of homeostasis works here too.
Under Wood what would be the effect of too much freedom? A need to feel safer and restricted? Maybe theyll feel that although they have a lot of freedom they lack a sense of safety, a place of safety and become reclusive?
ANYTHING can be "overdone" David.
You lost at “too much freedom,” that is the thought on adults too in most every area of our lives. You are a danger to their future.
KyCavalier:
You're still intoxicated, sir.
RedRed Mane RedRed Mane How is that? Too much freedom? Maybe kids could have that as they need boundaries to understand that they can't have their way. I read it wrong at first.
But, I live with a wife that is an example of Under Wood's post.
"We were ABLE to charge"....I'll just leave that right here.
timestamp please
@@torb1trick415 6:40
Stupid cops
Today I am 76 years old. I grew up Free Range. I drove our family car up and down the hundred foot driveway as a nine year old. Nobody watched over me. Yes, I scratched a fender once. I waxed and rubbed that fender to hide the damage. Later I learned my father knew about it. - Nothing was ever said! I hitched from Princeton WVA to Akron, Ohio with a friend. No problem. At twelve I rode my brother’s Harley 74 out on the nearby golf course many days. No damage to any grass. Just had a blast! At about five I walked to downtown Barberton to jump in the lake there. Never a problem. Many other examples - but, basically I was almost never closely supervised. I survived and believe I am better now than I would have been had I been monitored all the time.
I want to throw up every time I see the Liberty Mutual commercial about the boys who can't change a tire.
Major Lagg the pussification of men.
Major Lagg yup. I try to teach people auto repairs to be a capable human being but everyone is like I'll just pay a shop. Come on have some motivation to fix your own problems
changing a tire is one thing, but unless you drive an older car, so many newer cars these days all have computers hooked up to them making it a bit more difficult to troubleshoot and/or repair alot of stuff these days. Can't fix a power adjusting seat or electric power steering with just a wrench and some grease.
Changing a tire is different than not knowing how to cut your food.
Major Lagg yeah I live on a farm and that is mandatory even though I’m young.
I walked easily a mile along a highway with no police for miles to my friends house almost on a daily basis 100 degree days or not.
what?! and you didn't die of thirst?
@@doorran LOL No we drank from outside faucets water from a water hose meme on Facebook it's real we did that , that's why we didn't have bacterial infections , lol Our parents didn't worship us - they let us know I brought ya ass in this world I'll take out ua-cam.com/video/u-ryuJDTpEc/v-deo.html
I ran regularly run 16 miles in both 95 degree heat and 10 degree snowstorms with one of my friends, and we're fine.
Temperature in my country is measured in Celsius and the hottest day ever registered was more than 45°C. I admit my eyebrow went up when I read the "on a daily basis 100 degree" part.
Oh so that’s how you died.
When I was 8 years old, I was walking to and from school everyday, the trip was over 2 miles... I enjoyed those times, I got to explore new routes, meet new people, it gave me a sense of freedom and independence.. I worship freedom and independence and I fight hard to preserve these values.
IKR
I love the freedom that comes from driving. Always have. Before I owned a car, I used to take the bus to college. As soon as I started driving myself, I swore off the bus forever. I hate the thought of being dependent on someone else to get me there on time.
"A child who's trusted becomes worthy of that trust" -Counsellor Troi's mother Lwxanna from ST TNG
That a good one. RIP Majel Roddenberry
She's a "family therapist"?!? God help those families who go for therapy to her!!! She's the kind of person I'll warn my kids about so they'll stay away from her and those who think like her!
3:50, I’m sure she makes some man extremely miserable.
And probably cheats on him.
Big fan of this movement. Free Range Kids are better for you, and they don't have that weird, cagey aftertaste that I hate.
That was hilarious. I can't wait until people freak out about your comment. You know they will. Comedy is forbidden in modern day America, haha.
Finger lickin good.
@@Hyozon 😂
Michael McCarty hahahahaha
@P. Spit
You seem to be assuming that parents should let kids behave 'free-range' regardless of the situation. Nobody said that or acted it out in this video.
Then again, Sonya Carson's kids turned out pretty well.
P1. In the 50s kids would just come home by the time the streetlights turned off.
P2. There is less crime now than then.
C1: Therefore, the tendency to shelter kids is complete BS.
When I was a kid, my parents desperately forced me to go out and walk anywhere, but I refuse. Guess who's the hermit without social skills now.
Same here.
Parents should know which options to give their kids and when not to give them options. Give them the option of going out and doing what they want to do while socializing, but dont give them the option to stay sheltered and not talk to people all day.
Social skills do not come for free.
J Peterson says that children must be socialized before the age of four. Then it's too late and they will always be behind peers.
Your sister?
I'm 54 and my mom told me once when we were chatting about this decades later. Jeff she said, there were bad people even back when you were a kid. But I never let you go out without one or two friends. That way I knew you all would look out for each other and grow. I always remember that and value that my mother was a great mom for that.
Kids alone going about their day? It's normal in Estonia.
Greetings from Latvia 😁
Greetings from Latvia 😁
Same in Lithuania, brothers
Also in Russia.
Вообще всё хорошо
lol I used to walk to the store over a mile away to buy cigarettes and chew for my grandpa, then spend the rest of what he gave me on something to drink, some fireworks, and a slingshot if I had lost or broke my previous one.
worst thing that ever happened was I got stung by a wasp, and it wasn't like I was defenseless I had HE slingshot ammo
Damn your grandpa is a savage making you chew for him.
PHOBOS Me too, well, I was sent to the corner store for milk, bread or whatever. Lol. My grandpa tried to teach me how to chew Redman and I took a little chunk and chewed it up and he said "ok, now spit" and I spit it all out. He started laughing at me. He's gone now but experiences like that stick with you and you feel really good about yourself having that independence. Now kids are scared of their shadows and need playdo and gummy bears if someone says something they don't agree with factual or not. It's a damn shame.
PHOBOS I used rocks
When I was a kid,my dad was like, 'here son, here's a Dremel, and here's a soldering iron..have fun'. Lol
don't pick the iron like a pen though.
Lmao
I normally watch Stossel's videos just to agree with him. This one actually opened my eyes a bit. Funny how a Libertarian approach works well with kids too.
I wouldn't gamble the health of my family by seeing that crazy, over-the-top family therapist! Take it down a few notches, lady. I hope she has a therapist of her own. Geez...
@@josephvanname3377 It's therapists all the way down!
@@DarqeDestroyer
Therapists and a VERY happy drug dealer.
It used to be embarrassing and shameful to have your parents chaperone you anywhere, now most kids are driven to school even if they live right down the street. Then there are parents who drive their kid to the bus stop, and wait there until the bus comes, even when there are a bunch of kids there. Most of these adults are hypocrites anyway, because they were probably able to live more freely as children, turned out fine, and yet they force their children to live by a different set of rules. Hollywood is clearly hypocritical too, since they make movies all the time that depict children wandering alone, and fighting off the bad guys on their own.
I would argue that they apparently DIDN'T grow up fine, considering how they are raising their own children now...
Your point still stands beyond the word play though. Very rarely do I see children playing outside anymore. You couldn't keep my brothers and I indoors. At 11, 9(me) and 7, Mom and Pops started coming home from work every couple of months and say "We're going after cigarettes. See you when we get back. The house BETTER be spotless...", and we wouldn't see them until usually late evening Sundays. USUALLY rofl! Hell to pay if they came home early. I always walked to school rather than take the bus. Some less than a mile away, most a bit more. Started in the first grade. They really didn't restrict our movements much. They wanted to know where we were going to be, and when we were going to be home. The actual "where" wasn't really a consideration unless it had proven to be trouble already. Call if plans change mid stream and your eta home will NOT change. We had rules and the freedom of choice to break them, so long as we were willing to accept the consequences of our actions and don't lie. Sadly, mine is the first generation to have some of us raised under the "wisdom" of one Dr. Benjamin Spock.
Wanna bet they are so strict about supervising kids' time online?
we need to teach our kids what is right, teach them to be safe and how to handle themselves. and then, we need to let them take action. if your kids never get the opportunity to act on their own, they will always be dependent on someone else to tell them/ or do stuff for them.
Ay- _men. THAT'S_ how to raise leaders, not milktoasts.
The free-range childhoods were already gone when I was a kid in the 90's. I'm glad that some people are trying to revive it. I hope I can give my own children a chance to play like this.
That mother cutting up her 10 year old son's food is the typical 'Devouring Mother' archetype.
I feel like even if you don't want to be a free range parent, it is still important to give your child freedom. By the time I was 12, I could spend a lot of time with my friends with no adults around. By 13, my friends and I would go to the creek, go biking, go to the pool, ect with no parents around. We did have fights and issues, but learning to resolve and move past them made us stronger.
So glad I grew up in the era of being free range, though it wasn't called that. We walked to school, we played from yard to yard, we could go to the park and zoo nearby as long as we went in twos or threes. We had a huge yard, and many neighbor kids came to play. The two weeping willow trees sparked our imaginations. One day, a castle, or fort, a store, etc. I did catch my mom looking out and keeping an eye on us. Playing in the yard may not sound like much, but there was a gully behind our yard with the park beyond.
Now there are cell phones if kids get in trouble. And I'm sure their parents warned them about potential dangers before setting them free.
Here is one reason we have so many snowflake college students who must have safe places to run to. When you totally sanitize your child from life, you are not doing them any favors for their future. But maybe these parents want their kids to live in their basements forever,
That's it, right there! 💪
Tell me if I'm wrong, but doesn't arresting and fining the parents affect the child more than giving them a little bit of freedom, and maybe the kid being a bit worried before they finally get home or whatever they were doing? Government: "you can't let your child walk home on their own, you're clearly not raising them well enough. In the interest of the child, we'll be taking the kid away fm your control and fining you so that you have less money to spend on them. Thank us when your child isn't abducted."
Of course the irony is that the State is doing exactly what they claim they are preventing... taking the child away from the parent... abducting them if you will. They may claim it is for the protection of the child, but is the child better off being taking away by strangers with badges than he is by a stranger with candy? Either way, the child is still taken by someone they probably don't know and may not have any idea when or if they will see their parents again. Abducting a child so the child won't be abducted... there's governmental logic for you.
And as I just said, galx5199, to protect the kids from the pedophiles that their parents supposedly placed them right in the path of, they put the kids in foster homes, where all too often, they end up being molested ....BY THE FOSTER PARENTS!!! Great protection, huh!!!
Send them to church so they can be molested by the priests.
@@Mwoods2272 For God's Sake Don't Go To Church!!! ua-cam.com/video/x2pYhXScAKQ/v-deo.html
@@Victor-iq5rd
I attend a church where every offering of childcare is provided by certified and registered providers who volunteer their time. There's a great automated system that prints out matching id stickers for parent & child.
Just can't do right by some people.
"We were able to charge" .... oh goody I'll make the quota this month.
This is spot on. The safety culture we’ve created is raising a generation of anxious adults who can’t cope with reality.
kids in kenya walk much further, the cop overreacted
Well in the middle east they do public hangings, we should not be referring to 3rd world countries.
@@gerardos6025 you're replying to a 1 year old post, i'm not going to know what the fuck you're talking about.
You must be stupid then buddy. You can see your own comment when someone comments on it. What a fuckin scrub.
Imagin being an african child that walks tens of miles/kilometers per day and seeing this
And the kids in Kenya are raped, eaten by animals, and abducted. What’s your point? I would rather be there for my child, and make sure that if something happens. I’m there to protect, and help them. They can still learn to be independent when they are supervised. It doesn’t even have to be a parent. Why do you think that the teachers in middle schools are supervising the kids while they play?
By the time I was 11 my patents both worked until 10 or 11pm. I washed the clothes, made dinner, cared for my 5,3,& under 1 yr old siblings, bought groceries, and cleaned.the diapers. (Yes, this was when they were cloth, before everyone just threw them away) I managed a home and school. I find myself dismayed at the incompetentce if my children's friends and classmates and their parents unwillingness to let their kids do ANYTHING. They are creating a generation of dependent whiners.
Frank Mueller Bullshite! Stop lying Frank
Great example of why parents need to think before they have a litter of kids. I was in a similar situation as the oldest of 5 kids, stuck babysitting them all the time. This was the 90s
I grew up free range, heck my parents rarely knew where I was until dinner time. The 80s was really awesomely rad!
When I was 10 years old, I decided my mother wasn't taking care of me, so I walked a mile to my grandparent's... That is the smartest decision I have ever made!
The fact that Ruskin's name is Karen is just beyond delicious. Thanks for the laugh John!
Back in the 80s southern California. I remember walking 3 miles with my friend to the Santa Fe dam. Walked everywhere by myself
If you're going to give your kids the right to independence just make sure that they know stranger danger and how to defend themselves.
Zachary Clark yes I suppose a little girl is supposed to somehow be able to fend off a grown ass male predator 🤷🏾♂️ Apparently west just throwing all type of logic out of left window.
Damn when I was a kid I couldn't come home from playing until the street lights where on and drink out the water hose. This is great in some cases.
I was a free range child and I’m happy to say I’m a conservative that looks up things before I trust someone’s word the media and government can milk votes from other kids but that’s not me I don’t buy into the gender fluid or radical movements made by the newer generation I look deeply into the past and make sure it’s not repeated, I know how to defend myself and I support free range children if you teach them how to stay safe.
My childhood (especially summers) consisted of saying "bye" at 7 am and returning at 9 pm. I might have stopped in for lunch/food at some point.
I was such a free range kid when I grew up. I spent most of my free time in the forest and fields, by myself, with friends. Building forts (using an axe to cut down trees), rowing the boat on the lake to catch fish and turtles. I was supposed to be home in time for dinner. Doctor Phil is nuts. Yes, you could have horrible results,, but the real odds are about like being struck by lightning.
I once told the cop questioning my child's freedom that if the state wanted to pay me 1000.00 per month for each child they could tell me how to raise them otherwise get lost. I know have grand kids from both of them.
WTF is wrong with people? My brother and I were free like this when we were kids. This is sick what people are doing now. In fact, we'd cook by ourselves too - and I mean with the stove and the oven (the real oven).
Rodrigo Duterte
How could anyone forget? :^(
Damon Tripodi, me too, at age 6 we could roam the neighborhood until the street lights came on.
The empty streets void of all children ( even on Saturdays and Sundays )is testimonial to the fact that EVERY parent in America is raising their kids "lock-down-style." Unfortunately, "The Village" has spoken. Not much anyone can do.
@@redredmane2009 I have let my children do things alone only to have a helicopter parent threaten to call the police. This is the problem us free range parents face.
In the 70s I was blessed with free ranging. We went out in the morning rode our bikes and did not come home until a bit before sundown. The freedom was exhilarating. I had two paper routes at 12, played sports and basically ran my own life. Big dividends due to this independence. Additionally our parents were always there if needed.
GOOD OLD DAYS,
WHEN I WAS KIDS, RUNNING AROUND AND FREE.
Okay, so the government gets to decide when a child is old enough or mature enough to do certain things. So then tell me, what is the age where children are 'mature' enough to play safely in the front yard by themselves? Please give me the exact number down to the millisecond.
I used to shoot a bb gun, climb trees, and just run around outside away from adults for hours on end unsupervised. Once, when I was 4 (I was probably checked on regularly at this point)I was chasing a cat around the outside of the house. When I turned a corner, I slipped, and pushed into some sheets of tin laying on the ground. It cut below my knee, deep enough to see bone. I remember thinking "this isn't good" and then screamed "MOM!" She came and took me to the hospital. It bled somewhat profusely. Before she got a towel from the house and applied pressure to it, I thought the blood looked like a volcano coming out of my leg. Apparently, my eyes were rolling to the back of my head. I hated the wound irrigation. A few stitches (which I think were put in by a vietnam veteran, I was lucky), and I was good. For about a decade it would hurt for a short while before a rain, other than that it was perfectly fine. In the end, it all worked out. And even if it hadn't, I wouldn't have wanted my parents to baby me to try and keep me safe. Sidenote, I even stuck a steak knife into an electrical socket, bit like a son of a bitch but I was okay. :)
Your leg could tell when rain was about to come that's amazing you should do it again so you can become rich.
You don't know how fortunate you were to live beyond the electrical socket. 1/2 amp can cause cardiac arrest and cardiac muscle damage.
@@goatskin4487 Lots of people who sustain injuries have that. You can have pain due to the change in barometric pressure. Wasn't 100% accurate, but the weather forecasters aren't either. :)
@@HuntingTarg I do my own electrical work now, and am fully aware of how fortunate I was. Thank God I didn't touch the hot and neutral at the same time, and was on a dry floor.
You're not rushing them into being adults, lady, learning independence skills is important for all children, sure there can be a healthy middle ground but too much hovering and they'll be over dependent. Back in the day it was totally normal to walk by yourself to the library and get a book or walk home from school by yourself. If you're thinking they aren't getting a chance to have fun as kids because of too much responsibility, it's the opposite: they like this, they're having fun.
And get outta here with that slippery slope. Being on their own to learn how to spend money, talk to people, to learn to protect each other and stay safe, learn what to do if one of them gets hurt or another emergency, staying healthy, exercising in the outdoors, etc...you don't think those are important skills to learn? Contrast them to an overprotected kid who spends the time they aren't with an adult on their video games.
Maybe it could be dangerous for a younger kid to wander alone, but if they've been learning the important skills, they'll be safer and know what to do compared to if they've never been alone before. Besides, nobody is saying there shouldn't be rules like curfew.
The Art of Ａｇｏｒａｐｈｏｂｉａ Can confirm. 20 now, helicopter mom and few friends meant I spent most of my time with Nintendo. I now have no social skills, and have to learn basic life skills late because I did nothing as a kid.
i hate the mother of my child, she is an over protective parent, my kid tripped and skinned his knee, she screamed at me, saying i wasnt watching him, i said, i watched him trip and fall
We live in the age of adult morons. It's amazing that our species wasn't snuffed out years ago. As a child after breakfast on Saturday, we were gone! We knew we had to home for dinner. Got hungry, we went home. Thirsty, there was always a hose to be found, people just didn't care if a child was drinking in their front yard.
I remember when I was 10 and I wanted to six flags with my friend and his mom wouldn't let him ride public transit with me(20 miles away and 2 transfers), my mom was so put out with the lady, because she now had to drive us. WORLD'S GREATEST MOM!! 92 years old and still my greatest role model in life
I have to agree that kids should be able to work things out for themselves. This has been an issue for years and getting worse by the year. If you look at "adults" today. They aren't as strong or as confident as older generations which is sad to see, I'm speaking from experience on this since I had to same overbearing parents.
When I was 12 I travel 300km away from my home alone and come back just fine. I should get tv coverage back then
I find I am of 2 minds on this topic. One part agrees that yes, kids must be taught to be independent and self-reliant. The other part is thinking it's all fun and games until someone ends up on a milk carton
Vanessa Yaeggy I’m having the same dilemma. Maybe the trick is to have your kids feel like they aren’t being supervised when they actually are? My mom told me she used to tell the neighbors to just keep an eye on us, and this happened after high school!
So when I thought I was all grown up and being by myself or with friends without an adult watching, I actually was being looked after the whole time.
I've walked 5 miles from city to city when I walked home from school, it is relaxing and I think to myself the entire way, it's better than sitting at home doing the same thing.
I feel safe when I do it, mostly because I am safe and also I'm intimidating, well fed, and strong.....
That second woman is very dramatic. I used to run errands for my Mama in the summers while she was working. I walked to school and the grocery store. It was the best feeling and i feel so sorry for all the children who have never known such freedom. All those kids in this video stick together. There is strength in numbers.
We need more free range kids!
This just in..... A pack of wild ravenous children were spotted heading north on Main Street. If you encounter one of these animals you are encouraged to not look them in the eyes, find shelter and dial 911 immediately.
when I got my first bike I would ride 2-3 miles to the pool, the park, my fiends house. I don't see how people think coddling and babying kids is gonna make them safer by not knowing how to handle themselves.
Unfortunately, it's that the way the law ( to the tune of our indoctrinated "concerned citizens" )DICTATES that we are to raise our kids!!! We haven't any choice, I'm afraid. That's life under the DarkSide, Luke.
I bet Dr. Ruskin doesn't have any kids.
I was Free Range my entire Childhood. My Mother had 2 jobs, she stocked the house with food I can easily feed myself, left the doors unlocked and Told me to be back when the Streetlights are on them she'd go to her 2nd job and be back by Suppertime. I was never messed with (Except being chased by 6 foot Diamondbacks) because we literally had a Wild Desert past the fence of our backyard and I've never got hurt once. When she dropped me off at my Grandparents house, they left the front door unlocked and it was the same treatment and I went All over the neighborhood on my bike and was back by Streetlight time. The furthest I've ventured was 10 miles away. My Mother never asked where I was because she knew I that I knew where home was or where I was staying the Night... I would Never trade those experiences for the World.
In the 60's most of us were "free range" kids. We were called 'latch key" kids. We made some bad choices, but no one was lost, hurt badly or killed. We played in our neighbor's yards, walked to the park THREE WHOLE BLOCKS AWAY. We played on the swings where we tried to "loop" them, no one got hurt trying. We would jump from the highest point of our swinging to see who could get the most distance. No broken arms or legs. Maybe someone got a bump on their head from walking in front of a swing. Climbed trees like monkeys. Played with kids we knew from school who may not have been someone our parents would have allowed us to play with. We learned who NOT to play with. Neighbors would look out their windows from time to time just to make sure there was no trouble happening. It's a different world. And I grew up in urban NEW JERSEY, not some little town where everyone knew who you were. Good job by these parents. I would get more parents involved in watching out for the neighborhood, children included, but no need to hover over kids who show they can assume some responsibility.
I see plenty of "free range" kids when I go shopping... It only works when the parents aren't huge shit bags to begin with and that seems to becoming more and more rare.
When I was a kid my dad said if you don't come home by midnight, dont come so I wouldn't wake him up. I stayed out all night all the time. I was 12, I'm 53 and still alive.
One of the principal causes of obsessive parenting is the automobile: parents believe kids must be driven everywhere, but if children are left to travel alone, are threatened by traffic.
If we keep helicopter parenting our kids on everything they do, they will grow up and resent the parents.
Mother and smother are often the same. This is how all of us grew up in the 1960’s
I was eight, alone and watched a severely handicapped brother two years my elder. Cooked, cleaned, changed his diapers, washed him, and gave him his pills. Why? Because, my mom and dad worked! They couldn’t stay home, at least they didn’t use him as the excuse to stay home and Your parents paying for it.
As young as four and five living in Springfield, OH and always in the woods with my brother and neighborhood friends. Long walks on the railroad tracks, fishing, playing army., catching crawdads, and living.
Third grade and I waded a flowing Elkhorn Creek to walk to Peaks Mill Elementary that I could see from my bus stop. Walked home the same way, too.
It is actually scary to see kids who live in a bunker. You can see the immaturity.
This was norm until idiots came along.
My name is Mike, your life sounds like mine but in Grand Rapids Michigan, born in 1951 by 10 my friends and I would travel around the city from end to end, we'd go to shows or the museum or maybe to a girlfriends, some times I would do these things by myself,my life has been great.