10-year-old walks alone a mile away from Georgia home, leading to his mother's arrest

[42 Monks]

won't be surprised at all when she wins this lawsuit lol....

 

[Gloxina]

I'm glad she was able to fend him off
Gotta be scary for children and parents

This is why little kids shouldn’t be walking alone

 

[Ozymandeas]

At 10, me and my cousins were riding our bikes back and forth across state lines

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Remember when you would skip school and the prerecording would call your house to let them know you was absent. You had to make sure you answer the phone before your parents then erase the school number off the caller id.

 

[Mowgli]

Guess it's not a problem till something happens.


Crazy Georgia has become to puzz.
Ii used to walk 5 miles to the mall pretty regularly to hit the arcade

 

[Elle Seven]

Us GenX latchkey kids had something akin to this coming up. Funny to think about it now that our parents really wouldn't have known if anything had happened to us until we just never showed up at home from school or playing outside. No cellphones at all or anything to be tracking us like that, except folks in the neighborhood who would've seen us around.

I look at my kids sometimes and want to let them get the same little taste of independence I had as a kid, too...and then I remember this is Atlanta, a trafficking hub, and just dead that thought again.

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Us GenX latchkey kids had something akin to this coming up. Funny to think about it now that our parents really wouldn't have known if anything had happened to us until we just never showed up at home from school or playing outside. No cellphones at all or anything to be tracking us like that, except folks in the neighborhood who would've seen us around.

I look at my kids sometimes and want to let them get the same little taste of independence I had as a kid, too...and then I remember this is Atlanta, a trafficking hub, and just dead that thought again.

I can respect that one thing I learned though you can’t shelter them soo much to the point where as soon as you not around they doing whatever. From my experience kids going to do exactly what we did some more some less. I look at my kid sometime and I wanna get mad but I think to myself she only doing what you did.

 

[who_better_than_me]

YEA TIMES ARE DIFFERENT.

WE USED TO WALK A MILE TO SCHOOL
EVERYDAY...

YET WHEN MY BOYS TURN 10
IM NEVER GOING TO LET THEM
OUT OF MY SIGHT WHEN
THEYRE OUTSIDE.

THE WORLD IS JUST
TOO EVIL NOWADAYS AND
KIDS ARENT OFF LIMITS ANYMORE.
PPL LITERALLY SHOOT UP ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS


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Kids are also less aware than your generation because they all have cell phones and are constantly scrolling whereas your head. Was up and constantly scanning.

My son is 13 6 ft and 179. I didn’t even trust him to cross the street independently until he was 12. Dude had no awareness.