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Ron Obvious

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7. "Free Range" is what we used to call a normal childhood.

Reply to big_dog (Original post)

Mon Jan 19, 2015, 07:34 PM

Jan 2015

I worry about how stunted kids today will be in their development when they're not able to explore the world on their own terms and chose their own friends they met outside ('playdates' - yuck!)

I also worry that these kids will have very little appreciation of the natural world.

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'Free-Range' Mom Being Investigated by Child Services For Letting Her Children Walk to School [View all] big_dog Jan 2015 OP

Take them to court. Dawson Leery Jan 2015 #1

i would have called for the name of their police watch desk supervisor immediately big_dog Jan 2015 #3

Another case of nosy neigbour calling the cops. Mass Jan 2015 #2

home from the park Ms. Toad Jan 2015 #4

I was walking to kindergarten. It was somewhere around a mile. Then again it was the 50s. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #5

When young my friends and I loaded our bikes with camping gear and took off for the weekend FLPanhandle Jan 2015 #6

"Free Range" is what we used to call a normal childhood. Ron Obvious Jan 2015 #7

Busy looking for the like or thimbsup ProdigalJunkMail Jan 2015 #8