[KoRn]

I think the 6 year old is too young to walk home ALONE, but with a 10 year old sibling, I don’t see a problem with it. Especially in their own neighborhood, during the day. When I was 10 years old I went everywhere by myself.

They have gotten crazy about this stuff. I’ve heard of parents being charged for leaving kids in the car for just a few minutes while a parent runs into a store or somewhere for 5 or 10 minutes. That’s insane! When I was a young kid, I waited in the car MANY times, and no one thought anything of it.

Idiocy.....

[dalereed]

I walked a mile and a half to and from kindergarten when I was 4 1/2 in Los Angeles, parents taking their kids everywhere is stupid.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Idiocy.....

Idiocracy

[Eric in the Ozarks]

When I was 8 or 9 years old, I took the streetcar from one end of Yokohama and back. The round trip ticket was 25 yen, about 7 cents back then.
I was the only gaijin on board...