Mark

As a school principal I am amazed at how old children must be before parents will allow them to play outside without a parent present. It seems like this age is getting older and older!

What age did you (or will you) allow your child to play outside on their own?

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Mark Strohm, Jr.
Thrifty Times

Theophilus

Back in the dark ages when i was a child within our specified boundries I can't remember a time when we weren't allowed to play outside alone. I would say that my earliest recolection of playing outside alone was about 3 maybe 4 years old. We lived in a house on a farm .the yard was fenced and we spent hours withour parents inside out odf site.
My chidren were permitted to play outside alone in a fenced yard and with in specific limits unfenced yard from about age 4.

Of cource a lot depends on the neighborhood and the child.
Today with TV and computers it more a matter of getting tem to go out than concern for them being unchaperoned.

It's a frightening world out there. young children abducted from the yard ,house. Molested stollen murdered. No wonder parents are watching their children closer.

sincerly
Cliff

Boanerges

To be honest there are child molestoes on the news every night now. I used to think some of my relatives were extreme about things like this but now I don't even want my teenagers unsupervised.

violet

Jessesgirl

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"You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. If you treat them like sons, they will turn out to be heroes even if it is in your own eyes."
-Walter M. Schirra

"I'll like you forever, I'll love you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be."

Mark

Jessegirl,

We would tease our daughters that they could date when they reached 30 years old.

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Mark Strohm, Jr.
Thrifty Times

WordTime

Wow, that is quite a story. How scary. May I ask what your relative is in prison for? Or is that too personal?

Thank you for reminding us we can never be too careful.

smellycat

sad place to live when others who are evil change you.that is what is happening,we are getting more withdrawn from society because of news,a small % of evil are changing our societies.

carolinasteve

But th e% is growing and growing. Scripture says that sin breeds more sin, and when you combine the accessibility to pronography that the internet has proliferated and modern media has downplayed as harmless entertainment, along with the deacay of morality as a whole,especially noticeable to me here in the U.S, it is frightening. We found out 2 years ago, thanks to a concientious neighbor, that there was a convicted sex offender renting a house in our small neighborhood. We were not notified by the owner of the home that rented to this man, nor do know if he even knew who he was renting to. I do know that the guy only got 3 years probation, so it could have been a case of 18 year old guy with a 16 year old girlfriend have consentual sex, and hte parents finding out and reporting him, or it could have been worse,we just don;t know for sure. I think Violet is correct. While yes, its sad that our children cannot, at least in some areas of the country or the world, enjoy the freedom and innocence as we had it growing up, it is our responsibility as Christian parents to protect our children and instill in them the wisdom to protect themselves once they are out on their own. And, as evil continues to previal more and more in this world, our methods to keep our children safe must also increase in their diligence and severity.

smellycat

i think you are correct,filth brings more filth,and when our tv,s papers and the like make sin normal,then we know we are in hell or as near to as it as i want to be.the world is LOOPY controlled like puppets on a string.keep up the good morals,by reading Gods commandments.