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I live in a little country in Europe and a lot of kids ride the bus or subway from ages 7 and up alone. I have no issue with the child being 9.
But being American myself, I know what NYC is like. I would give a big NO! My issue is with the other people, not the child. It would be far too dangerous in a city like NY.
But being American myself, I know what NYC is like. I would give a big NO! My issue is with the other people, not the child. It would be far too dangerous in a city like NY.
No.
No.
No definatly not.
Not in 1000000000000000000000 years
I would never, especially in a place like New York City which is filled with people who would kidnap a child.
No not a chance i am a mother of three boys and subways in general are dangerous but an NYC subway oh no.
NO! in this time of the future kids alone is a NO no! ... i would let him or her go alone when they're around 15 but not to a subway i don't knw .. to the mall ?
Never. I grew uo by NYC, & didnt even start riding the subway alone until I was like 17
No. These "free range" kid parents will have tragic results someday. And no one to blame but themselves. They live in a fairy tale world, denying the everyday dangers.
No way.
Helllll to the NO.
Are you crazy? I am 30 and I won't ride a NYC subway alone!
Yes.
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I grew up in New York, and that's pre-crime-crackdown Queens. I have no fear of the city. I'd be more afraid of a placid looking housing tract, with all its garbage cans lined up in perfect order: because it's not about the position of the garbage cans or the colour of the house - it's what's inside them. All you need to be safe in a city is to have some damn common sense and confidence, and that's something our kids' generation will lack almost entirely, because they've been too sheltered and too over-protected and too coddled to ever develop an ounce of it.
Common sense is only built through experience, and experience is only developed by independence. Leashing your kids until 18 does them no favours - it only feeds YOUR fear and neuroticism and placates it momentarily. Common sense is what kids need - not constant monitoring, control, supervision, direction.
A kid is much safer on a subway surrounded by people than they are in a church alone with a priest. A confident and street-wise kid is much safer in the middle of a city than an oversheltered, naive, easily persuaded kid afraid of their own shadow is in the middle of his own classroom. Weak, easily frightened, over-protected kids who don't know their way around are easy pickings for predators. Confident kids who have experiences and who know what's going on are not easy prey.
No one is going to kidnap a kid in broad daylight in front of a bunch of witnesses. Get a freaking grip and quit letting the media scare you. First of all, stranger kidnappings are incredibly rare in any scenario (most kidnappings are non-custodial parents, relatives, and people well known to the child), and second, no amount of overprotection is going to stop a truly deranged person, because hey, guess what? Mental illness! Someone who is that nuts that they want to kidnap a kid, is not going to be deterred just because you lock little Farquar up 24/7. How hard is it to break a window?
Don't come crying to those of us who don't shelter and cage our kids, when yours are 30 and too afraid of life to leave your basement and still have to have mommy escort them to the potty.
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I grew up in New York, and that's pre-crime-crackdown Queens. I have no fear of the city. I'd be more afraid of a placid looking housing tract, with all its garbage cans lined up in perfect order: because it's not about the position of the garbage cans or the colour of the house - it's what's inside them. All you need to be safe in a city is to have some damn common sense and confidence, and that's something our kids' generation will lack almost entirely, because they've been too sheltered and too over-protected and too coddled to ever develop an ounce of it.
Common sense is only built through experience, and experience is only developed by independence. Leashing your kids until 18 does them no favours - it only feeds YOUR fear and neuroticism and placates it momentarily. Common sense is what kids need - not constant monitoring, control, supervision, direction.
A kid is much safer on a subway surrounded by people than they are in a church alone with a priest. A confident and street-wise kid is much safer in the middle of a city than an oversheltered, naive, easily persuaded kid afraid of their own shadow is in the middle of his own classroom. Weak, easily frightened, over-protected kids who don't know their way around are easy pickings for predators. Confident kids who have experiences and who know what's going on are not easy prey.
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No one is going to kidnap a kid in broad daylight in front of a bunch of witnesses. Get a freaking grip and quit letting the media scare you. First of all, stranger kidnappings are incredibly rare in any scenario (most kidnappings are non-custodial parents, relatives, and people well known to the child), and second, no amount of overprotection is going to stop a truly deranged person, because hey, guess what? Mental illness! Someone who is that nuts that they want to kidnap a kid, is not going to be deterred just because you lock little Farquar up 24/7. How hard is it to break a window?
Don't come crying to those of us who don't shelter and cage our kids, when yours are 30 and too afraid of life to leave your basement and still have to have mommy escort them to the potty.
Yes, for a lot of the same reasons Tiger Lily stated.
NYC isn't even in the top 50 cities when it comes to violent crime, hell Omaha Nebraska has more violent crime. NYC has this huge stigma of being a bad place but the people there on the streets are really some of the friendliest I've ever been around in a big city and really helpful. Now, I personally have never used the subway because it's not exactly wheelchair friendly when compared to the cabs or the metro in DC but I wouldn't worry nearly as much as I would in Detroit.
NYC isn't even in the top 50 cities when it comes to violent crime, hell Omaha Nebraska has more violent crime. NYC has this huge stigma of being a bad place but the people there on the streets are really some of the friendliest I've ever been around in a big city and really helpful. Now, I personally have never used the subway because it's not exactly wheelchair friendly when compared to the cabs or the metro in DC but I wouldn't worry nearly as much as I would in Detroit.
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