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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by moonchrome on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:27PM (#34193557)
Seeing how I was the odd one out in my generation (poor/large family in the neighborhood) comparing myself to peers I don't see the value of my undirected roaming.

For example I remember having a huge leap in physical abilities when I started takng taekwondo classes around that age. After school activities let me thinker with stuff.

Roaming around was just lack of better things to do. Not really seeing what my peers without those near death experiences missed out on.

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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by ido on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:49AM (#34195610)
But taekwondo is once a week. Roaming the forest instead of playing NES is something you did every afternoon.

I too have 2 children and struggle a lot with this question, I tend to lean towards more independence and my wife towards more supervision.

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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by moonchrome on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:52AM (#34204775)
> But taekwondo is once a week.

We had 3x per week IIRC. My kid is too young still but in the next year I think I'll start taking him to judo. Add swimming classes and his week is full of activities.

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