We're a part of the problem, my daughter is lucky she can walk to one of her schoolfriends houses. Her other besties are a minimum 30 minute walk, but they all attend the same school they're zoned for.
Though that statistic is skewed by me being a nerdchild with few friends...
That's what bikes are for though, right?
I think this helicopter parent micromanagement has just exploded with smartphone gps availability whereas in the 90's parents were pulling out the ol' paper map before road trips and maybe had a malfunctioning Tom Tom gps. Would love to see some data on tech savvy parents tracking their kids, anyone know about this?
My brother wouldn't let her go visit them before he got her a GPS tracking smartwatch with LTE for kids.
(We grew up riding our bikes to/from school, going and playing with neighborhood kids, wandering around, etc...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_murders_of_1979%E2%80%...
Now that the snow is gone one of them switched to hitting pieces of wood with a croquet mallet.
The kids are alright.
I'd bet most of these replies in this nature are written by child-less people giving their view of how things are so much worse now than when they were kids.
They're still doing the same stuff they've always done (wasting time and having fun).