Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone. ⇒
10 April 2008, mid-afternoon
I should send this to my coworker. This link was found via Bruce Schneier.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
When I was in elementary school, I used to have to walk home from detention or walk to school if I missed the bus and that was 2.3 km (just google mapped it).
Seems like everybody and their mom is getting paranoid these days. “Oh no, Johnny can’t play on the driveway. He might get hit by a car. The speed limit on our road is too high. We need it lowered to 5km/hr.”
You can almost constantly meet people everyday that have yet to learn independence. And these people are 20+ years old. Kind of sad to think about it actually.
by Iluvitar on April 10 2008, 3:38 pm #
Great article. If a child is never allowed to fall off their bike, they’ll never understand the concept of risk. Teaching them to be afraid of everything robs them of ever developing independence and other important life skills.
I wrote my thesis on a similar vein. There are some really good articles in this journal:
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/
by stacy on April 11 2008, 12:32 am #