Well, overparenting is necessary in a country where everyone who is an adult can buy a gun easily. In other lands, such as mine, I would let my kids be kids, let them have freedom. In "great" America? Nope, I'm sorry.
"I asked children and parents who'd lived both abroad and here in the States what struck them as the biggest difference. They all said it was the lack of childhood independence in America."http://reason.com/archives/2019/01/21/after-living-abroad-kids-strug …
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Nonsense, 40 years ago lots of kids had their own guns.
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We've struggled with this after returning to the States. Still homeschooling the kids while working f/t because of it.
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Part of the reason Americans don't let children learn to be adults is that the adults here are still children and are fighting to put padding on everything.
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Reminds me of a recent trip to SF. I was trying to cross the street in front of Moscone. 3s left on crosswalk light and I bolted; street was 1 lane wide. SF policeman literally stood in my way with arms stretched; I bounced off his chest. He gestured me to go back. Nanny state.
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That virus has spread to india too.
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Yeh I was an exchange student in high school in the US, I felt this way as well.
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Yes and in the long run they lose their creativity. Risk taking capability comes from a free range childhood with lots of Play and imagination.
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It's happening everywhere, not US only. When I have read your tweet, I remembered and searched for this https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-generations.html … My childhood (in Russia) was a lot less controlled, we where not driven/walked to school, spent our day on our own without smartphone/parental oversight
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Reminds me of this video on non-US independent kids. It begins with a 7 year old girl in Japan. "If she gets lost or catches the wrong train, she has to figure it out on her own. She won't be able to get home if she doesn't..." https://youtu.be/P7YrN8Q2PDU
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key words: independence and self-reliance.
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