It's so interesting. I'm in a mentor program where I work with a 16-year-old and this child is LITERALLY not allowed to walk down the street in NYC by herself. She must be accompanied by a parent or other approved adult. It's not religious. I always wonder if something terrible happened to the mother (who seems to be the stricter parent) and this is the outcome.
The girl told me that she is wants to learn how to use public transport but probably won't know until she's an adult because her parents drive her everywhere they don't walk together.
I think this is helpful in the context of the conversation about babysitters and sleepovers. Statistically they are much more risky than walking on the street. My kids have a fair amount unsupervised freedom because we donтАЩt want them in shock going to college. I once read a NYTimes article in like 2009 that said the modern parents brain is not wired to assess risk well. We were made to hear a twig snap in the woods and determine if itтАЩs a predator coming to eat our kids or not. And I think that true and hard.
I am very sorry for what happened to your friend and I know that what she is doing comes from a good place but she is doing so much harm to her kids by making them scared of everything. The reality is that she will not be able to be with her kids every second of their lives and not exposing them to normal day to day events will leave her kids much more vulnerable down the road
It's so interesting. I'm in a mentor program where I work with a 16-year-old and this child is LITERALLY not allowed to walk down the street in NYC by herself. She must be accompanied by a parent or other approved adult. It's not religious. I always wonder if something terrible happened to the mother (who seems to be the stricter parent) and this is the outcome.
The girl told me that she is wants to learn how to use public transport but probably won't know until she's an adult because her parents drive her everywhere they don't walk together.
I think this is helpful in the context of the conversation about babysitters and sleepovers. Statistically they are much more risky than walking on the street. My kids have a fair amount unsupervised freedom because we donтАЩt want them in shock going to college. I once read a NYTimes article in like 2009 that said the modern parents brain is not wired to assess risk well. We were made to hear a twig snap in the woods and determine if itтАЩs a predator coming to eat our kids or not. And I think that true and hard.
I am very sorry for what happened to your friend and I know that what she is doing comes from a good place but she is doing so much harm to her kids by making them scared of everything. The reality is that she will not be able to be with her kids every second of their lives and not exposing them to normal day to day events will leave her kids much more vulnerable down the road