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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 271541" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Maybe things are different depending where one lives. And I know things have changed since I was a kid. I was like Jo...I rode my bike several miles a day to the pool when I was just a kid, stayed there all day, and then came home at night. I was probably 10? Maybe? By 12 I was taking the bus into downtown Richmond to have lunch with my Dad then going shopping and coming home on the bus in the late afternoon. All alone. </p><p></p><p>Where I live now kids, including mine, are sent out to play in the mornings on bikes and 4wheelers (we didnt have the 4wheelers) and they just come home at dark. Mine fished, climbed trees, roamed the woods, went to friends houses...whatever. It was "go play and leave me alone time". Now once Cory hit his teens, he didnt get to do this as much as he did when he was little. Jamie was always allowed free run but with Cory we had to keep a much tighter hand on him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 271541, member: 1514"] Maybe things are different depending where one lives. And I know things have changed since I was a kid. I was like Jo...I rode my bike several miles a day to the pool when I was just a kid, stayed there all day, and then came home at night. I was probably 10? Maybe? By 12 I was taking the bus into downtown Richmond to have lunch with my Dad then going shopping and coming home on the bus in the late afternoon. All alone. Where I live now kids, including mine, are sent out to play in the mornings on bikes and 4wheelers (we didnt have the 4wheelers) and they just come home at dark. Mine fished, climbed trees, roamed the woods, went to friends houses...whatever. It was "go play and leave me alone time". Now once Cory hit his teens, he didnt get to do this as much as he did when he was little. Jamie was always allowed free run but with Cory we had to keep a much tighter hand on him. [/QUOTE]
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