When I was six my best friend and I would get up on Saturday morning, meet up on our bikes and challenge ourselves to ride to a some street or area we’d never seen before. Now at age six we weren’t traveling terribly far but we really did try to push the limits until we were somewhere unfamiliar, even if that was only 5-6 blocks away. Our parents wouldn’t see us for an hour or two and they didn’t seem to care. Again, we were in 1st grade at the time. I really think a parent who did this now would be in danger of having the police called on them but in the 70s this was pretty normal.Read More
Would ‘free range kids’ struggle less with mental health?
