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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 509241" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Really though, has this generation of children become coddled and woosified? It's been a very long time since I was a kid and, except for the drugs, the bad stuff and the bad people were out there then too, you just didn't hear about it as much. But we were very self-reliant children! We all walked to school every day. If it was cold, we bundled up, if it was hot, we sweated, and if it rained we got wet - and we survived and did just fine. At an early age, and certainly by age ten, our parents trusted that we had enough common sense to navigate the neighborhood by ourselves ... and we did! Way before age ten we routinely walked the mile and a half to our grandparents house and back, including crossing a very busy street. Our parents had taught us how to cross a street safely and we did! And we rode our bikes much further than that! I grew up in suburban St.Louis and by the time we were ten, my best friend and I were veterans at getting around on city buses, going downtown to shop or spending the afternoon at the ball park. So ... are todays kids dumber or less capable or less resilliant physically than we were at the same age? I don't think so! So what's the difference?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 509241, member: 1883"] Really though, has this generation of children become coddled and woosified? It's been a very long time since I was a kid and, except for the drugs, the bad stuff and the bad people were out there then too, you just didn't hear about it as much. But we were very self-reliant children! We all walked to school every day. If it was cold, we bundled up, if it was hot, we sweated, and if it rained we got wet - and we survived and did just fine. At an early age, and certainly by age ten, our parents trusted that we had enough common sense to navigate the neighborhood by ourselves ... and we did! Way before age ten we routinely walked the mile and a half to our grandparents house and back, including crossing a very busy street. Our parents had taught us how to cross a street safely and we did! And we rode our bikes much further than that! I grew up in suburban St.Louis and by the time we were ten, my best friend and I were veterans at getting around on city buses, going downtown to shop or spending the afternoon at the ball park. So ... are todays kids dumber or less capable or less resilliant physically than we were at the same age? I don't think so! So what's the difference? [/QUOTE]
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