[lbo-talk] cell phone hell

[Max Sawicky]

My wife, without any protest from me, insisted on not letting our
daughter out of our sight when
she wasn't in day care or school till her early teens.  This always
amazed me since I remember
walking to school in the second grade and basically going anywhere by myself.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Chuck Grimes wrote:
>>
>> > So is this kind of freedom, unimaginable today? I ask also because in my
>> delivery days on the road, I rarely saw any kids loose on the streets.
>> The few I did see were immigrant kids, whose parents were running family
>> stores nearby or so I guessed.
>>
>
> I guess Chuck describes how we handled our kids: when they could cross a
> street by themselves, we stopped keeping close tabs on them. I think my
> brother & I also wandered from that age, though we lived on a farm.
>
> Carrol
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