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Males in their 20s have more issues with depression and anxiety if they were raised by helicopter parents who constantly supervised them as opposed to free range kids.

Kids are more anxious. What if we gave them independence?

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Posted by deltaland

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Posted on 11/14/24 at 8:51 am to jizzle6609

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At 10 I had a part time job.

So did I. Worked on the catfish farm all summer for 5.50/hr

I even drove a truck. 1980 Sierra 2500 flatbed, manual shift, with a 454 big block. Had a diesel tank on it for fueling up tractors and I would change oil and fuel filters on the tractors. I also checked spawn cans to bring catfish spawns to the hatchery

I remember at 12 driving an old 1970s Ford F600 with no brakes across the bridge to arkansas 4 times to haul back some aerators we bought at auction

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Posted by Mid Iowa Tiger

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Posted on 11/14/24 at 8:57 am to dgnx6

My younger ones still do.

Hell my 13 year old son just spent a weekend camping in the woods alone. He was only a 1/2 mile or so from the house but from Friday evening until Sunday morning he was on his own.

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Posted by TigerAxeOK

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Posted on 11/14/24 at 9:26 am to fr33manator

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Didn't 10 year olds go off camping in the woods 20 years ago?

I was 10 y.o. in the late 80s and yes, we did.

Sunup to sundown, riding bikes around town, going fishing every chance we got, exploring everywhere we could find anything even remotely interesting, building rudimentary bushcraft shelters and forts, squirrel and rabbit hunting, and all we had to do was "check in" at lunchtime and before the streetlights came on. Those were our known markers. When your shadow was directly underneath you, it was time to check in and grab a quick PBJ sammich. When that sun was sinking in the west, you knew it was your arse if you didn't check in before those lights came on. Check in, eat supper, say "we're going back out to the fort to camp!" and the parental units would say "have fun, check in for breakfast".

We never had any money. Like, none. Ever. But I've gone into that before and don't feel the need to again. It's like, I know a lot of people grew up without money (thin wallets, so to speak), but we really had no money period. The only "money" I saw for several years was food stamp booklets. Yet my childhood was beyond amazing. Some of the best memories of my life. A by-gone era that will never be seen again. My kids never got to experience anything like it, and it's very unfortunate.

You just haven't lived unless you've experienced being in a group of 3 11 year olds camping in a hut made from arched willow branches and insulated with sphagnum moss and cedar boughs, cooking a can of pork and beans over a small fire in the hut and then pretending to be drunk after passing around a single can of warm Natural Light that one of us found unopened in an alley in town. I could write a book.

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Posted by SaintsTiger

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Posted on 11/14/24 at 9:32 am to Toomer Deplorable

My neighbors, 3 kids 11 and under, were required to be out of the house almost all the time while the parents “took a nap”

Anyone got the government official’s contact information?

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