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Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond

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Post by watwut »

comrade1234 wrote: post #29

Here in Switzerland children start walking to school at around 5-years. Parents aren't allowed to bring them to school. If a parent escorts their children to school they'll be told not to. If they keep doing it they'll get a letter from the school and probably a police visit. And if they continue (I never heard of it getting to this stage) they may be fined. It's funny in the morning. One child walks to another child…

> If they keep doing it they'll get a letter from the school and probably a police visit.

That seems excessive.

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Post by stormbeard »

tedggh wrote: post #155

There’s plenty of ways to trust your very young kids and raise them to be independent. Allowing them to walk alone for half a mile crossing roads is not one of the them. Kids can behave very differently when they are with their parents or other adults. So you can’t assume because they do something with you all the time they will stick to the same behavior and rules without supervision. At 5 years old their brains are…

This is your opinion.

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Post by subscribed »

profsummergig wrote: post #204
Gud wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are 150 nationalities in Zurich.

They are also the cream of the crop from their respective nations. Diplomats and bankers.

This is such a fine sarcasm, chef's kiss!

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Post by WhatIsDukkha »

tedggh wrote: post #174
WhatIsDukkha wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US has very low standards for its lifestyle. We're told we are number ONE in everything but in fact its usually 40 or 20 when you actually go look at things that matter. We never really notice because we think filling a big house in the suburbs with garbage from Costco is living the dream.

As a naturalized American who lived in 3 other countries including two in Europe and who travels often all over the world, married to a European, etc I must say the US has its perks and it’s definitely in my top 5 countries to live. I lived mostly in the south and the east coast so I don’t have a full picture of the US as a resident. But it’s the same in Europe, living in Berlin is very different than living in Sicil…

You should start a timer every time you get into the car.

For most Americans it might add up to 7-10 hours a week or more.

That's a lot even over a few weeks.

That's not time walking with your kids or dog sniffing the flowers, that's the opposite.

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Post by illiac786 »

gogobio wrote: post #151
Aurornis wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Young children also walk to the elementary schools near me. When I’m at the park with my kids, it’s common to see other very young kids show up alone on their bikes or on foot to play in the park. This is in the US. I think international readers see these headlines and assume the entire US is like this, but the reason the story is a headline is because it’s a dumb sentence. This is going to get appealed. The US is a…

I'm also in the US, in a city in a populous state and I've never seen that, as a matter of fact it counts as child abuse in my state as well. Why don't you mention where you live and what state you see this within? Is it because what you're seeing is anecdotal in some particularly rich area? I can assure you leaving children under 16 unsupervised is illegal in most states.

It is actually telling you didn’t even check this. It’s because you are so 100% convinced it’s true. This shows how bad the situation is in some places.

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Post by breakpointalpha »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #200
Aurornis wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Young children also walk to the elementary schools near me. When I’m at the park with my kids, it’s common to see other very young kids show up alone on their bikes or on foot to play in the park. This is in the US. I think international readers see these headlines and assume the entire US is like this, but the reason the story is a headline is because it’s a dumb sentence. This is going to get appealed. The US is a…

As an international reader I'm missing some context here. Isn't a gated community supposed to be singularly safe? With private guards (like the guy who took the kid to his mom) patrolling and no strangers allowed in etc? Why did the guard tell the kid that "bad people" might take him? Where would those bad people come from? It really all does sound very weird.

Presumably the guard is supposed to keep the "bad people" out, so that kids can be safe.

Instead, the Mom is placed on probation for seven years and will have monthly visits from CPS.

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Post by p1esk »

pcan77 wrote: post #218
p1esk wrote: post #10

The main lesson here is: don’t be confrontational with cops.

this is not the lesson lol. Why should the cops be allowed to enforce such a dumbass rule with no consequence?

Because it's their job to enforce rules. Don't like the rule? Go vote for someone who will change it.

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Post by eudamoniac »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #202
eudamoniac wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't ok to acknowledge that racial (cultural) homogeny has any benefit to a society whatsoever?

Wait. Is it racial or is it cultural? There's a difference there. Do you believe it's possible to have cultural homogeneity without having racial homogeneity? Btw I think you're wrong: people can be extremely xenophobic with the folks from the next village over who are their cousins thrice removed. It's nothing to do with race or culture, just who's in the in-group and who's in the out-group, and what those are depen…

I think cultural is probably the thing that has benefits, but they are so intertwined that they're essentially the same or impossible to extricate. Anyone who has visited Japan can understand that there is some benefit to racial/cultural homogeny. It doesn't really matter which of the two is the important part when they cannot be extricated.
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