Parents under investigation for letting children outside unsupervised

[Teddy B 17,252]

around here kids still roam free, mostly (i mean this is a really small town) but there are still plenty of adults who parent their kids like they live in dc suburbs, instead of the country. there will probably always be helicopter parents. but yeah - my kid hangs out with his friends on xbox live. i suggest inviting kids over after school or on the weekend to actually for real hang out - zero interest.

kids could walk with toy guns without getting shot by police.

kids still walk to and from the elementary school here in town, unsupervised. but there's only a couple because most don't live close enough to walk. i wish my kid would go out, but he's too old for playgrounds now. when i was young, my mom would never have let me go to a playground without her. not until i was 12 or so.

Another thing I blame is the lack of community policing. Kids could feel somewhat safe knowing there was usually a cop they knew not too far away. And the cops knew the kids names and which ones were troublemakers and which ones were not.

Edited January 16, 2015 by Teddy B

[Torete 121]

We used to have bottle rocket fights across the river.

Dang...forgot that one.

Back in the day:

Ingredients; 1 sturdy cardboard Christmas wrapping tube like they used to have 40 years ago. 1 circular Tinkertoy piece duct taped to cap the end. 1 screwdriver to poke a hole in the cardboard near the capped end. 1 Blackcat fire cracker inserted into said hole. 1 ping pong ball inserted into tube.

Wala! Instant bazooka war!

[lostinblue 1,989]

around here kids still roam free, mostly (i mean this is a really small town) but there are still plenty of adults who parent their kids like they live in dc suburbs, instead of the country. there will probably always be helicopter parents. but yeah - my kid hangs out with his friends on xbox live. i suggest inviting kids over after school or on the weekend to actually for real hang out - zero interest.

kids could walk with toy guns without getting shot by police.

kids still walk to and from the elementary school here in town, unsupervised. but there's only a couple because most don't live close enough to walk. i wish my kid would go out, but he's too old for playgrounds now. when i was young, my mom would never have let me go to a playground without her. not until i was 12 or so.

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Another thing I blame is the lack of community policing. Kids could feel somewhat safe knowing there was usually a cop they knew not too far away. And the cops knew the kids names and which ones were troublemakers and which ones were not.

Not a lot of that where I grew up. Mostly, the only time you ever saw a cop was when you or someone else was in trouble. However, parents ruled. If any parent caught you causing trouble that meant you had hell to pay when you got home. Of course, that didn't stop us, only taught us kids how not to get caught.

Edited January 16, 2015 by I AM NOT THAT GUY

[Torete 121]

And my parents knew every neighbor by name within a block radius.

Another thing I blame is the lack of community policing. Kids could feel somewhat safe knowing there was usually a cop they knew not too far away. And the cops knew the kids names and which ones were troublemakers and which ones were not.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Not a lot of that where I grew up. Mostly, the only time you ever saw a cop was when you or someone else was in trouble. However, parents ruled. If any parent caught you causing trouble that meant you had hell to pay when you got home. Of course, that didn't stop us, only taught us kids how not to get caught.

And my parents knew every neighbor by name within a block radius.

[decocker 7,198]

Another thing I blame is the lack of community policing. Kids could feel somewhat safe knowing there was usually a cop they knew not too far away. And the cops knew the kids names and which ones were troublemakers and which ones were not.

yeah well, that doesn't ring true anymore. back in the day cops didn't arrest kids for farting during silent time.

it's much better when parents can communicate and resolve problems in the neighborhood without having to call the cops and file a report, imo. had to do that earlier this year, and the other mother actually thanked us for showing up to talk with her and her husband about the issue. what could have turned into some real drama, ended with us telling her kids not to be afraid to knock on our door for help if needed and vice versa. people don't know who to interact with others irl anymore seems like.

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what is brought to me by the anti gun crown brain washing everyone?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Brought to you by the anti gun crowd brain washing everyone

what is brought to me by the anti gun crown brain washing everyone?

Humor him. He is doing God's work. Edited January 16, 2015 by I AM NOT THAT GUY

[decocker 7,198]

Humor him. He is doing God's work.

for sure. me responding at all was me humoring.

[Teddy B 17,252]

yeah well, that doesn't ring true anymore. back in the day cops didn't arrest kids for farting during silent time.

it's much better when parents can communicate and resolve problems in the neighborhood without having to call the cops and file a report, imo. had to do that earlier this year, and the other mother actually thanked us for showing up to talk with her and her husband about the issue. what could have turned into some real drama, ended with us telling her kids not to be afraid to knock on our door for help if needed and vice versa. people don't know who to interact with others irl anymore seems like.

what is brought to me by the anti gun crown brain washing everyone?

Cops usually just told whoever was causing trouble to beat it, very rarely did anyone ever get arrested. You're completely right that people do not know how to interact on a face to face basis any more and again I blame video games and computers. As much as they've helped with technology, they've also hurt in taking away communities.

[decocker 7,198]

Cops usually just told whoever was causing trouble to beat it, very rarely did anyone ever get arrested. You're completely right that people do not know how to interact on a face to face basis any more and again I blame video games and computers. As much as they've helped with technology, they've also hurt in taking away communities.

i blame fear. people are afraid of everything anymore. social networking spreads fear super quick and parents are easy prey. i can't tell you how many times i've had some parent at school start spreading some bogus local amber alert or an accident occurs and suddenly all the parents are insane with worry about the same accident happening to their child, instead of being reasonable and level headed.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

i blame fear. people are afraid of everything anymore. social networking spreads fear super quick and parents are easy prey. i can't tell you how many times i've had some parent at school start spreading some bogus local amber alert or an accident occurs and suddenly all the parents are insane with worry about the same accident happening to their child, instead of being reasonable and level headed.

how un-American....

[Teddy B 17,252]

i blame fear. people are afraid of everything anymore. social networking spreads fear super quick and parents are easy prey. i can't tell you how many times i've had some parent at school start spreading some bogus local amber alert or an accident occurs and suddenly all the parents are insane with worry about the same accident happening to their child, instead of being reasonable and level headed.

That's a byproduct of the computer. Also the media today loves to spread fear, fear equals ratings. They try to scare the ####### out of everyone when we're going to get 2 inches of snow, it's like armageddon.

Edited January 16, 2015 by Teddy B

[JohnR! 5,495]

And my parents knew every neighbor by name within a block radius.

And there was a tacit agreement and understanding that anyone in the neighborhood was authorized to bop upside the head any kid making trouble. Nowadays you touch someone else's kid and you end up in jail... Kids thought carefully, very carefully before giving lip to adults - neighbors and teachers included...

Edited January 16, 2015 by JohnR!

[decocker 7,198]

That's a byproduct of the computer. Also the media today loves to spread fear, fear equals ratings. They try to scare the ####### out of everyone when we're going to get 2 inches of snow, it's like armageddon.

i would blame the media over computers.

it's like in the early eighties when parents were convinced that satanists were literally everywhere, just waiting to eat their babies when their parents dropped them off at daycare. i think one woman just got out of prison for running a satanist daycare - completely innocent all along.

or when my mom rushed me and my brother inside the house so we wouldn't get aids from mosquitos.

i mean, how many mom's still insist on checking their kid's trick or treating bags for razor blades and angel dust even though that's all urban myth? we didn't need computers to get scared about any of these things, just television. television "news"