{"id":1075,"date":"2008-04-11T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2008-04-11T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:22:12","slug":"more-on-where-have-all-the-children-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/04\/11\/more-on-where-have-all-the-children-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"More on “Where have all the children gone”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a follow-up to my posts on Where have all the children gone<\/a> and More on the “Missing Children”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bruce Schneier writes about how overprotective we’ve become of children<\/a>. He quotes a story of a mother who lets her son take the New York City subway home on his own, trusting him to follow her instructions and be safe.<\/p>\n

Long story longer, and analyzed, to boot: Half the people I’ve told this episode to now want to turn me in for child abuse. As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids. It’s not. It’s debilitating — for us and for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I may not have grown up in New York City, but as a kid I used to wander for miles and miles on my own. I’m sure many people reading this can say the same thing – and we all turned out OK, right?<\/p>\n

So why are we so scared to let children go out and actually be children<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a follow-up to my posts on Where have all the children gone and More on the “Missing Children”. Bruce Schneier writes about how overprotective we’ve become of children. He quotes a story of a mother who lets her son take the New York City subway home on his own, trusting him to follow… Continue reading More on “Where have all the children gone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[100,392],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-opinion","tag-society","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-hl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":893,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/06\/02\/where-have-all-the-children-gone\/","url_meta":{"origin":1075,"position":0},"title":"Where have all the children gone?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Where are all the kids these days? 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