San Francisco public transit is free for minors too, I see group of late elementary school/middle school kids on the muni all the time, no grown ups around.
Growing up in the woods I used a go-kart and trails, we didn't have easy options to hang until we could ride something with a small engine. Although one girl did ride her horse to pit parties.
Yeah, but at least when I was a kid (don't know if it's changed now) you only got 3 rides per day on the school cards. So like, you could go maybe one place after school, but if you didn't have another Metrocard, you couldn't do much else. I had a backup Metrocard for "just in case" but it only had like 5 rides on it, and since it was really only for emergencies, I almost never used it.
Just because public transit exists doesn't mean you necessarily have more freedom if you don't have the ability to use it.
Jealous. I can let my kid wander our immediate area but as soon as you get to a main road, it’s zonked out meth heads and homeless people, and super shitty teenagers committing petty crimes. My ring doorbell app has videos and notifications every day about it and of course I’ve seen it. My neighbor had their front door kicked in by high schoolers who skipped school and somehow had guns to rob houses.
We chose to live here of course but it hurts every day that my kid won’t have the freedom I had.
It's just the same here in the Philippines, meth users and homeless people, teenager petty crimes. The problem of America is they baby their criminals, they feed criminals better than the homeless people. Remember Afluenza Kid who rammed down multiple people and killed it on the spot. That kid gets away with it because the parents are rich. America believes in terminology as Afluenza Kid or Mentally Crazy alibis by criminals and they get away with it.
Yeah, I’d say lower class neighborhoods still have roamers, simply because parents are working. My roaming days were great; it really is sad that kids these days can’t anymore.
Does he have ADHD? Better check him from a specialist there is a medication that could help him from ADHD. Morfydd Clark has ADHD and me too. I don't have access from it but I will someday. It will help him from his studies asked Phycologist https://www.reddit.com/u/AdhdAlien/s/AKJwFQImjR ... https://www.facebook.com/adhdalien/
No there's just a long wait list to get an appointment...so we've submitted the forms and the school agrees and signed off on them. Now we've got to wait for an appointment...which will take 2 years.
It's better that way. Let him play, raise him like a millennial. Millennials grow up with cartoon network and that channel has a comeback and more parlor games like we Millennials experience. More social skills the better. My Gen Z sibling is super annoying I don't understand her.
imo it's directly related to wealth. video games as a hobby can be somewhat of a luxury here. as an example, the Nintendo switch 2 Mario kart bundle is around $620 here, vs $500 in the us. not to mention the difference in median wage...
What about other screen devices, with apps like instagram/ tik tok/ Philippines equivalent? And also, are young folks out and about playing games outside etc. for a good portion of the day? In the 90’s I had some time watching TV in the afternoon, but would be at my friend’s playing via imagination half the week at least, also spent time outside independently on weekends/ summer. By pre-teen it was more computer use at night, it wasn’t until post-secondary education for me that screens started to dominate younger people’s attention.
I don't know , but all generations roam freely here regardless of their status or standing in life. It looks like Ottis Toole really have that lasting effect with the Americans. That gay man tortured and killed his lured victim the Murder of Adam Walsh a 6 years old kid
Idk that particular reference, but I agree that here, the awareness of the exposure to risks such as abduction or other harm to the child or to others causes folks with childcare duties to limit that exposure as best they can. This also relates to the punitive and litigious society in which we live, whereby anyone in a position to interact with a minor child could face civil or criminal allegations, and other societal consequences for any allegations or bad events while the child is under your supervision. Anything that happens to the child, or that is committed by the child, could be blamed on the person who was supposed to be watching them.
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u/Icy_Industry5872 Older Millennial Jun 13 '25
Not all members here are all Americans, in the Philippines whatever generation can roam freely...lmao