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| I couldn't bring kids up in a place where they're treated like babies, and that does include large parts of Asia too. I had the great fortune to do a lot of stupid things as a kid, take responsability and learn from it from a young age on. My parents were sometimes worried but never overprotective, we played on the street where occasionally cars passed every day, we just established a warning system and nothing ever happened. We took care of the younger ones and everyone would play outside, no parents in sight. That's the way it should be and I want it no other way when I have a family. No way I'd drive my kid to school every day, or force him/her to stay at home fearing he/she might harm her-himself. | |
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I agree, I grew up the same way - in the summer, kids were sent out in the morning, came back in the evening. And I cannot remember any serious accidents happening to any of my childhood friends at that time, altough we did all the stupid things kids do - playing on building sites and scrapyards and similar. Of course we made our own way to the school and I was babysitting my sister when I was 7, not needing a babysitter when I was 14, like in many other places. So I'm very happy that Switzerland has similar attitudes.