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Originally Posted by monkey hanger
is it the kids though or their parents. lots do not even walk to school anymore and are put in cotton wool by a lot of parents. might get run over if they walk to school, might be a paedo about if they go down the park, might be this, might be that. i was told to get out and see my mates and managed to avoid dirty old men and being run over by the silent death, a trolleybus.
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I think it is a mixture of things.
Parents run their children to school and this sets the tone.
They do not let their children experience life....they think they are 'looking after' their children, when in fact they are giving them a social handicap....risk avoidance....no it isn't even risk avoidance....it is not allowing children to determine what risks there are in everyday life.
They are raising children who do not know how to swim in the sea of everyday life
I think there have always been risks in society....some of them you mentioned.
By not exposing children to risks(even the minimal ones) means that they never formulate strategies to avoid/deal with risk of any description.
I walked all the way across town to school every day(both ways) in the fifties.
And you may say that there was less risk from traffic....but less risk is not NO risk.
I was taught road safety....I was taught not to speak to strangers.....i was taught to stay in a group of children.
I was not scared...I grew up in the best of times.
My childhood gave me the skills and the confidence to be who I am.