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Interesting article re: "Free Range Kids"
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 286620" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>Well, I was definitely a free-range kid and, because I live in rural Nebraska in a town with less than 200 people and my kids are related to at least half of them, they were able to be pretty much free-range kids too. I think it is a good thing but I know that, realistically, in the world where we live, a lot of kids don't have that luxury.</p><p> </p><p>I do think that we have become over-protective and over-paranoid to the point where kids don't get to do a lot of things. Yes, there is some danger involved in some of them but life is a terminal disease. Things do happen and no matter how careful you are, things still happen. I don't believe in being stupid (we use car seats, seat belts, bike helmets, etc.) but I do believe that you can't protect against everything and that life is to be enjoyed so we also roller skate, play football, swim, play at the lake, ride bikes, swing, go down the slide, use the teeter totters, etc. There has to be a happy medium someplace between the people who don't look after their kids at all and those who want to wrap them in some kind of a cocoon so they never encounter a germ and never get a scratch or a bump.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 286620, member: 135"] Well, I was definitely a free-range kid and, because I live in rural Nebraska in a town with less than 200 people and my kids are related to at least half of them, they were able to be pretty much free-range kids too. I think it is a good thing but I know that, realistically, in the world where we live, a lot of kids don't have that luxury. I do think that we have become over-protective and over-paranoid to the point where kids don't get to do a lot of things. Yes, there is some danger involved in some of them but life is a terminal disease. Things do happen and no matter how careful you are, things still happen. I don't believe in being stupid (we use car seats, seat belts, bike helmets, etc.) but I do believe that you can't protect against everything and that life is to be enjoyed so we also roller skate, play football, swim, play at the lake, ride bikes, swing, go down the slide, use the teeter totters, etc. There has to be a happy medium someplace between the people who don't look after their kids at all and those who want to wrap them in some kind of a cocoon so they never encounter a germ and never get a scratch or a bump. [/QUOTE]
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