These stories always remind me the difference life experience makes. As a kid of the 70s/80s we were pretty independent. I mean summers I would leave the house at 8am and wouldn't be back till around 8pm and that was before cell phones. It was pretty common for me to be left home alone in the summer starting when I was like 10 or 11. So these people freaking out so bad just seems....odd to me. LMAO then again I thought the same thing when I saw how my in laws reacted to just someone they didn't know walking through their neighborhood (they ending up calling a family friend who was a cop to keep an eye on the guy).
Crime was actually worse in the 80’s and 90’s. It’s just that social media makes every dicey public and private encounter into a major news story. I remember my parents would leave us home alone starting in the early 90’s when we were 5 and 7 years old (older sister was two years older). It wasn’t a great neighborhood either; mostly hard working people but also had active gang members living down the street. Although the 80’s and 90’s weren’t devoid of sensationalism; remember the satanic panic, stranger danger, and LSD laced stickers? Admitting I’ve fallen into the hype too; I shadow my daughter every step she takes at the park. Meanwhile my mom would just sit on the bench and tell us not to leave the sandbox, and we better not fall off the big toy because she wasn’t paying a hospital bill! Simpler times.
@@sasquatchhunter86 yeah stranger danger is kinda a scam. 95% of attacks on children by someone the kid knows. Your kid is literally more likely to be stuck by lightning than to be kidnapped by a stranger. And yea I remember the satanic panic very well, LMAO. I was a bisexual atheist who liked heavy metal and played D&D growing up in the deep south. I didn't exactly fit in and was regularly told everything I liked was satanic and I personally was responsible for the downfall of western civilization.
It happened fairly often back in the day.(I was regularly left home alone starting around 11) All the wierd laws about kids are fairly recent. Kids were, well had to be, much more independent in the past.
I’m the late 60’s and early 70’s I worked in our aunts beef stand a block away and closed it at night and walked home alone. I was 11 and so did my sister at 13…. When I was ten I took a bus every day to my cousins house every day all summer to take care of their newborn baby girl. At 10 years old!!!🤦♀️. We were very responsible girls. Yet our younger brother wouldn’t listen to any of us 😂. Today you would not leave a newborn with a ten year old…. She’s just fine today and is a grandma. I called her my Barbie doll. Her name was Barbie. Still love her so much.
@@suedesignable i go think we baby kids too much now. I realized those the first time a saw a modern childcraft.(I had grown up with a set published back in the 50s or 60s) Remember childcraft the books that gave little experiments and stuff for kids to do at home? Like carving soap sculptures or making baking soda volcanoes. Yeah I looked at a modern one and realized all the fun experiments had been taken out. No soap sculptures cause it used an exacto knife. No baking soda volcanoes, etc etc. It was all considered too dangerous for kids. It finally hit me, if we never trust kids with responsibility how the heck are they supposed to learn to be responsible?
These stories always remind me the difference life experience makes. As a kid of the 70s/80s we were pretty independent. I mean summers I would leave the house at 8am and wouldn't be back till around 8pm and that was before cell phones. It was pretty common for me to be left home alone in the summer starting when I was like 10 or 11. So these people freaking out so bad just seems....odd to me. LMAO then again I thought the same thing when I saw how my in laws reacted to just someone they didn't know walking through their neighborhood (they ending up calling a family friend who was a cop to keep an eye on the guy).
Crime was actually worse in the 80’s and 90’s. It’s just that social media makes every dicey public and private encounter into a major news story. I remember my parents would leave us home alone starting in the early 90’s when we were 5 and 7 years old (older sister was two years older). It wasn’t a great neighborhood either; mostly hard working people but also had active gang members living down the street. Although the 80’s and 90’s weren’t devoid of sensationalism; remember the satanic panic, stranger danger, and LSD laced stickers?
Admitting I’ve fallen into the hype too; I shadow my daughter every step she takes at the park. Meanwhile my mom would just sit on the bench and tell us not to leave the sandbox, and we better not fall off the big toy because she wasn’t paying a hospital bill! Simpler times.
@@sasquatchhunter86 yeah stranger danger is kinda a scam. 95% of attacks on children by someone the kid knows. Your kid is literally more likely to be stuck by lightning than to be kidnapped by a stranger. And yea I remember the satanic panic very well, LMAO. I was a bisexual atheist who liked heavy metal and played D&D growing up in the deep south. I didn't exactly fit in and was regularly told everything I liked was satanic and I personally was responsible for the downfall of western civilization.
I gess the man was not scared of the dog
I thought the kid said their parents were divorced but then says how they went away out of state together.
You should’ve titled this “bad parents stories”. It’s disgusting how many people have kids they don’t deserve
You know now you can pay online now so they can just set it down be smart people
Who leaves a 10 year old child in the house at night? The police would Have like to know about That social service would step in
It happened fairly often back in the day.(I was regularly left home alone starting around 11) All the wierd laws about kids are fairly recent. Kids were, well had to be, much more independent in the past.
I’m the late 60’s and early 70’s I worked in our aunts beef stand a block away and closed it at night and walked home alone. I was 11 and so did my sister at 13…. When I was ten I took a bus every day to my cousins house every day all summer to take care of their newborn baby girl. At 10 years old!!!🤦♀️. We were very responsible girls. Yet our younger brother wouldn’t listen to any of us 😂. Today you would not leave a newborn with a ten year old…. She’s just fine today and is a grandma. I called her my Barbie doll. Her name was Barbie. Still love her so much.
@@suedesignable i go think we baby kids too much now. I realized those the first time a saw a modern childcraft.(I had grown up with a set published back in the 50s or 60s) Remember childcraft the books that gave little experiments and stuff for kids to do at home? Like carving soap sculptures or making baking soda volcanoes. Yeah I looked at a modern one and realized all the fun experiments had been taken out. No soap sculptures cause it used an exacto knife. No baking soda volcanoes, etc etc. It was all considered too dangerous for kids. It finally hit me, if we never trust kids with responsibility how the heck are they supposed to learn to be responsible?