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It's weird to think as a society that we can build a walled garden around human nature. Mentally unwell people who attack schools will use other weapons if you somehow take all the "assault" rifles away and we've seen this in other countries who have tried it. When a school shooting happens we don't talk about psychiatric medication or prescribing practices for them. The #3 cause of death is "accidental self inflicte…

> It's weird to think as a society that we can build a walled garden around human nature. We literally can. We built lane assistance and airbags and cars that sometimes self drive because humans naturally are bad drivers. We created fire alarms and automatic sprinklers because sometimes people forget about the thing in the oven. We invented medication for mental illness and obesity. We invented padded rooms and rehab…

> We invented padded rooms

Precisely.

> Guns are one of the most dangerous things a person can own

Actually it's an extension ladder.

> any other weapon is a lot easier to stop and a lot harder to kill with.

Where's your can do spirit now? We literally invented metal detectors and have dogs that can smell guns and explosives because sometimes mentally unwell people have weapons.

> That’s why other places don’t have the same death rates as America.

That's one possible explanation. It's very thin and there's much contrary evidence. You'd have to make a stronger case.

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> For better or for worse the ship has definitely sailed on the laissez-faire "be home before sunset" parenting of past generations. It's only "sailed" because (some) parents demand to know where their kid is at all times. While I think it's difficult for any individual parent to, say, forbid social media for too long lest they ostracize their kid, saying "I won't track my kids" is a choice any parent can make. I jus…

It's a choice a parent can make until someone calls the cops because your kid is unattended. I've had people give me you're an awful parent side eyes for not keeping my eyes on my kid 100% of the time in a fenced in park. Letting my kid walk to school like I did as a kid is just forever outside of my reach if I want to not have CPS called on me. At least if I geotag my kid with someone obvious people will be chill ab…

Exactly,I feel that some parents will be judged by their peers if they are not keeping a short leash on their children.

And because people are encouraged to look at any sign of child neglect (for some reason), dirty clothes or bruise that could be acquired during play, could be easily misconstrued as child abuse.

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This is a really naive take. I tried literally what you’re advocating. And what happened was some busybody lady in my neighborhood kept calling CPS when my daughter would walk to play at a friend’s houses down the block. When I was her age (6) I ranged an entire town on my bike. But this lady just kept calling on us. She’d bring my daughter home whenever she saw her out. It was infuriating. Once we got the Apple Watc…

There must be something you can do about that lady other than sticking a watch on your child. Something about harassment surely.

If it weren’t her, it’d be another one. There are whole swaths of the populace convinced any child out alone is in mortal danger. They’ll post to the neighborhood Facebook group in panic if they see a child walking to the convenience store unattended.

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It’s an Android watch rebranded as kids version, add some restriction features. Apple has all of that already

It isn't an Android watch, fitbit has their own OS that works with both iOS and Android phones. Only the Pixel watch uses android.

Replace Android with Fitbit, imo worse

Re: Google releases smart watch for kids

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Flip that around. My child has more freedom now, because I can let her walk further from home, unsupervised, to see if a friend can play - because she can immediately text me and let me know she's staying at the friend's house for the next few hours. She no longer has to wait for me to be ready to walk with her. She can text me if she wants to be picked up from aftercare early. Or if she wants to stay later. Or if sh…

I simply called using the landline back in the day, but I grew up in a small village in Germany where roaming the fields unsupervised was the norm.

Sure, I did too, or using a pay phone. There are precious few pay phones and landlines anymore.

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I agree with this 1000%. Kids need to be free and explore things on their own. Why are we living in a world where we think that kids do not deserve privacy? Or where we think that we cannot trust our children?

It's less about the children and more about the adults. Most parents that I know are scared that their children will be victims of violent crime. They may trust their kids explicitly and implicitly, but do not trust the world. I blame 24 hour news, to be honest.

Pretty much this, my mother would always say I'm not worried about you, I'm worried about others. This went for most things during childhood, walking home from school, driving a car etc

This has gone all the way back to around 2007 as a free roaming kid

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I simply called using the landline back in the day, but I grew up in a small village in Germany where roaming the fields unsupervised was the norm.

I don’t know anyone in the U.S. who still has a landline.

Germany showing its incredible infrastructure again then. But then giving the kids a cell phone really is a necessity huh. Can't even call parents at work if they're back from school or on break and something happens.

Re: Google releases smart watch for kids

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Here we go with more helicopter parenting devices. Please parents...look up the studies on how detrimental it is to hover over every aspect of your child's life. It's not good. I raised five kids to adulthood with the last one finishing his freshman year of college this year. None of them had devices until middle school and even then, it was restricted. We made our kids roam around like feral coyotes. They are absolu…

I don't doubt your claim, but you didn't provide any examples or evidence. What positive effects did limiting device access from your kids have on them?
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