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Ideal_Rock
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Sorry for the threadjack, but it''s funny what Sumbride says about needing an SUV to haul all your kids to school. Where I grew up, you put your little shoes and your little coat on, grabbed your little bag, kissed mommy and daddy goodbye, and walked to school. I walked to school, by myself or with my brother, from the second grade. Everyone did. The neighbourhood was full of little kids walking to and from school on their own. Nobody''s mom dropped them off in an SUV or any other kind of car. In fact, I don''t recall anybody''s mom even WALKING their kid to school after 1st grade.
Maybe this is just because I lived centrally in a city, instead of in a suburb, where the distances were farther? it was about half a mile to my school. Although I feel like people don''t let their 7 year olds go out on their own in the United States at all. That''s so sad.
I wonder what kind of effect that has on independence and adventurousness. I wonder if I''d be traipsing off to Peru on my own, and I wonder if I''d be so athletic if walking to school every day wasn''t part of my life growing up, from an early age.
Maybe this is just because I lived centrally in a city, instead of in a suburb, where the distances were farther? it was about half a mile to my school. Although I feel like people don''t let their 7 year olds go out on their own in the United States at all. That''s so sad.
I wonder what kind of effect that has on independence and adventurousness. I wonder if I''d be traipsing off to Peru on my own, and I wonder if I''d be so athletic if walking to school every day wasn''t part of my life growing up, from an early age.