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In reply to the discussion: I'm Afraid My Neighbors Will Call Cops if My Kids Walk Alone [View all]marybourg
(12,633 posts)10. I do too, and I was a young child in the 1940's. At that age
I walked to school with an adult who worked in the school. If she was not available, my mother, or an older neighbor child walked me. But, by the time I was 9 or 10, I was riding my bike several miles to a city housing project which contained a public library. I would leave the books in the bike basket if I stopped off to visit with a schoolmate on the way home, because who would steal a book? Everyone could get all the books they wanted from the NYC public library. No one ever did steal a book from me. Or bother me in any way.
At 12, I rode city buses and subways between boroughs, even into Manhattan before dawn. But I think 5 is too young to walk several blocks without an adult tagging along.
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I grew up in a small town. When I got my bike in jr. high I was just about anywhere in town.
Thomas Hurt
Sep 2022
#2
What my sister & I got by with in a relatively small town when growing up is light years away from
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#9
I grew up in Millburn, N.J. I lived across the street from the Papermill Playhouse.
3Hotdogs
Sep 2022
#18
The only thing I would say is this. I was 7 and my sister was 5 we walked to school in a
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#19