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re: Mom Jailed Because She Let Her 9-Year-Old Daughter Play in the Park Unsupervised
Posted on 7/15/14 at 5:53 pm to StringedInstruments
Posted on 7/15/14 at 5:53 pm to StringedInstruments
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It is strange the difference in reactions. Take your kids to a park, water park, or rec center, and drop them off. SHITTY PARENTS ABANDONING THEIR KIDS! Kids bike to the woods a mile away, walk around shooting the shite, and it's a typical summer outing.
It's usually about the kids that get dropped off at blue bayou or the mall and such just being shitty humans.
In urban settings people see it.
Nobody but the animals saw us building forts and shite out in the woods.
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Posted on 7/15/14 at 6:36 pm to Seymour
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The shocked adult called the cops. Authorities declared the girl "abandoned" and proceeded to arrest the mother.
WTF has happened to the fricking HUMAN BEINGS in this fricked up country?
9 year olds aren't ready to play at the park by themselves?
I'm afraid we have made life such a wet nurse for kids that many are going to be so I'll prepared and mentally immature to handle life when they get older, and pissed off at their parents for not letting them be a fricking kid when they were a kid to live it.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 6:52 pm to Seymour
In 1960's we rode bikes all day, played in the park, and didn't come home until the street lights came when I was nine years old.
I remember we were more independent than the kids today.
I remember we were more independent than the kids today.
This post was edited on 7/15/14 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 6:56 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Good. Don't be a shitty parent and leave your kids at a park unsupervised.
If this is the definition of shitty, every parent before 1980 would be a shitty parent.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:00 pm to johnnyrocket
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In 1960's we rode bikes all day, played in the park, and didn't come home until the street lights came when I was nine years old. I remember we were more independent than the kids today.
I got out of school at Memorial Day, shucked my shoes and didn't put them back on until back to school the Tuesday after Labor Day. Street lights came on we were heading to the house.
At least the mother was working. Nine may be too young in this day and age but it wasn't when I was a kid. We rode bikes to Burger King, Tony's Donuts, Pac A Sack, K&B and Baskin Robbins. Played ball at three different schools and several empty fields, hung out in the woods, slipped into Baton Rouge Country Club ponds and felt for golf balls with our feet, shot squirrels and robins with our pellet guns and built tree houses.
No one wanted us in the house. We would have been lazy.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:02 pm to johnnyrocket
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In 1960's we rode bikes all day, played in the park, and didn't come home until the street lights came when I was nine years old.
Paradoxically, it's never been safer than today to be a kid doing this sort of stuff.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:03 pm to johnnyrocket
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In 1960's we rode bikes all day, played in the park, and didn't come home until the street lights came when I was nine years old.
I remember we were more independent than the kids today.
I know some parents who locked their kids outside during the day. Couple of friends parents did this.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
You didn't have to lock us outside. We were too busy building makeshift army bases so we could pelt each other in hickory nut wars.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:06 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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Paradoxically, it's never been safer than today to be a kid doing this sort of stuff.
Yep, but events carry so quickly via the media that all parents are scared as hell to have the kids out of their sight. Can't say I'm any different.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:07 pm to fr33manator
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We used to play in the woods and the fields and the bayous by ourselves all day.
No one got arrested.
no shyt. we even hopped a train one day and rode out to a swimming hole then walked back
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:07 pm to Martini
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No one wanted us in the house
Three TV stations and they all three sucked during the day, which is why being inside sucked too. We did the exact same as you and your friends did. Nobody wanted to be inside.
What kills me about this mindset is that at some point, either the parents or grandparents of the kids today being coddled in the house all day made a conscious decision to deny to their kids the childhood they themselves enjoyed and built memories upon memories from, and that in and of itself is the worst of the worst IMO. There's going to be a lot of resentment for a lot of people one day.
This post was edited on 7/15/14 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:11 pm to Seymour
My 6 and 8 year olds run across the street to the BREC park almost everyday to play baseball with their friends. They don't have a cell phone. Parents hover too much. Let your kids grow some on their own. They'll learn much more about the world without you around to baby them.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:12 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
I hope the POS who called the cops is publicly identified and shamed.
From a moral standpoint, the government is guilty of kidnapping. And the child is in far more danger in the child welfare system than she ever was at the park.
From a moral standpoint, the government is guilty of kidnapping. And the child is in far more danger in the child welfare system than she ever was at the park.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:22 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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And the child is in far more danger in the child welfare system than she ever was at the park.
Yup
Posted on 7/15/14 at 7:56 pm to fr33manator
Dad worked nights. I wasn't allowed inside except to shite and grab a sandwich for lunch. Too busy swimming, fishing, playing HR Derby with a taped up bat and whiffle ball to want to be inside.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 9:59 pm to johnnyrocket
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This post was edited on 6/16/16 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 10:07 pm to Yung_Humma
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I think there are quite a few differences between now and the 1960s...
Care to elaborate?
Posted on 7/16/14 at 5:29 am to StringedInstruments
Your children are only yours to do with so long as we allow it, citizen.
Posted on 7/16/14 at 6:28 am to Mike da Tigah
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Three TV stations and they all three sucked during the day, which is why being inside sucked too. We did the exact same as you and your friends did. Nobody wanted to be inside.
What kills me about this mindset is that at some point, either the parents or grandparents of the kids today being coddled in the house all day made a conscious decision to deny to their kids the childhood they themselves enjoyed and built memories upon memories from, and that in and of itself is the worst of the worst IMO. There's going to be a lot of resentment for a lot of people one day.
People are going overboard here. I grew up in the 70's & early 80's and did all these things. We stayed outside, we rode our bikes for miles, the whole 9 yards. But people are forgetting one things that is different from how we grew up and what was going on with this little girl. We were out with our buddies. We were wit ha pack of other kids. We were not alone. If we were out and something happened and we got hurt, we were with others who could quickly get our mom and get us help. This girl was dropped off at a park all alone with nobody there who even knew who she was, much less how to contact her parents if something were to happen.
This post was edited on 7/16/14 at 6:30 am
Posted on 7/16/14 at 6:49 am to Darth_Vader
Is this why you joined the biker gang?
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