Wondering

[were_gopher]

What is wrong with this world that makes me even slightly nervous that I've let a 12YO and a 9YO go to the park at the end of our road on their own for an hour. Ok the 12YO isn't as savy as most kids his age but it's still something I don't think our parents would have thought twice about in the 60s or 70s.

Comments

[pwl1.livejournal.com]

When I was 10 I was walking home from school at lunch time - starting a fire in the wood stove, and heating up a can of soup for lunch.

Mind you, our village was very small, and I was related to approximately half of it.

And we are talking over 4 decades ago.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but with me we are talking five decades.