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I feel sorry for my son... gone are the "good old days". :(
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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1569298" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>So if it's clearly no more dangerous than it was 10, 20, 20, 30 or 40 years ago...what's changed? And if it's even LESS dangerous than it was back in the good ole days of your childhood, why do you worry more than your parents did? Were your parents insane?</p><p></p><p>It's weird what changing societal norms do to us, me included. When I was a kid we lived off bicycles in the summertime. If nobody was around that day I'd go anyways; I thought nothing of taking off on my bike miles for miles, alone, with no phone as a lifeline. Neither did my parents or grandparents. Now as an adult I won't leave my house for a couple mile jog without carrying my cell phone. What if I get hurt and need to call for help? I would actually feel uncomfortable leaving my house without it, and I'm an adult male. As a 10 year old kid I, and my parents and grandparents, thought nothing of me being alone on the road. Why? Odds are nothing will happen. Go be a kid. If it does, well, that's terrible. But so is not being a kid. If I get hurt, I could yell to a house, or wait for a car to drive by and flag them down. 2-3 minutes probably, and odds are they would be glad to help and wouldn't rape and murder me. Nope. I'm still taking my phone jogging.</p><p></p><p>You have to make a conscious decision to look at things objectively otherwise it's easy for your views of reality to be distorted. </p><p></p><p>I was sitting in a gas station parking lot after arriving early to meet an OSA'r for a deal earlier this summer, and it made me happy to see all the latchkey kids riding up on BMX bikes and skateboards for slushies and candy. No doubt on their way to play with fireworks or trespass at a construction site to see if there is anything cool to ride off of. Those kids will be on a message board in 30 years talking about the "good ole days of 2011" where they rode around all day and nothing bad happened to them, and how you just can't do that in 2041.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1569298, member: 4319"] So if it's clearly no more dangerous than it was 10, 20, 20, 30 or 40 years ago...what's changed? And if it's even LESS dangerous than it was back in the good ole days of your childhood, why do you worry more than your parents did? Were your parents insane? It's weird what changing societal norms do to us, me included. When I was a kid we lived off bicycles in the summertime. If nobody was around that day I'd go anyways; I thought nothing of taking off on my bike miles for miles, alone, with no phone as a lifeline. Neither did my parents or grandparents. Now as an adult I won't leave my house for a couple mile jog without carrying my cell phone. What if I get hurt and need to call for help? I would actually feel uncomfortable leaving my house without it, and I'm an adult male. As a 10 year old kid I, and my parents and grandparents, thought nothing of me being alone on the road. Why? Odds are nothing will happen. Go be a kid. If it does, well, that's terrible. But so is not being a kid. If I get hurt, I could yell to a house, or wait for a car to drive by and flag them down. 2-3 minutes probably, and odds are they would be glad to help and wouldn't rape and murder me. Nope. I'm still taking my phone jogging. You have to make a conscious decision to look at things objectively otherwise it's easy for your views of reality to be distorted. I was sitting in a gas station parking lot after arriving early to meet an OSA'r for a deal earlier this summer, and it made me happy to see all the latchkey kids riding up on BMX bikes and skateboards for slushies and candy. No doubt on their way to play with fireworks or trespass at a construction site to see if there is anything cool to ride off of. Those kids will be on a message board in 30 years talking about the "good ole days of 2011" where they rode around all day and nothing bad happened to them, and how you just can't do that in 2041. [/QUOTE]
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