Re:The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets
by Talanes on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:36PM
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I grew up in rural California in the one town in the county that was incorporated; the kind of place where every cop in town shows up if anything happens at all. I biked and rollerbladed to school alongside literal highways and never was approached about it once.
Re:The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets
by bcrosby95 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:17PM
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Oh yeah, for sure. But I think the argument is that times have changed.
Re:The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets
by beej71 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:15PM
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And in my rural California town growing up the cops pulled you over for everything. I was once pulled over for riding my bicycle "fast". I wasn't speeding.
Every place is different.
I live in a suburb in California and have never ran into this problem. But we're also unincorporated and don't have cops with nothing better to do than harass some kid walking to school alone.
We're also surrounded by people whose kids are now in their 20s-30s. They don't see our kids running around as a nuisance - they're relatively new empty nesters and the kids seem to evoke nostalgia as they discuss the different things their kids did around the neighborhood when they were young.