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WCDT: 2460-2464 (3-7 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Redball:
I walked alone to school, about a mile, starting in first grade. Detroit streets were safer in the 40s.
GarandMarine:
Small children take the metro alone regularly in Japan, but there's cops everywhere and it's pretty safe in general. It was definitely odd to me the first time I saw it though.
Akima:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 06 Jun 2013, 15:06 ---I went to school across town on my own by bus daily at the age of five.
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This is a cultural attitude as well as one that has changed over time. I cycled to school by myself, though the streets of Australia's largest city, from the age of eleven, and walked to school before that. But, and this is a big but, my parents trusted me to tell them where I was going, go where I was supposed to be going (school, shops etc.), do what I was supposed to be doing, and return directly home. If I had misled them about where I was going, or tried to justify it with weaselly arguments about what "friends" meant... Well, let's just say that I would have regretted it. Chinese parents are immune to kawaii eyes, and don't try to be their kids' best friends. Mine gave me trust and responsibility, but that sprang from my obedience.
Faye is enjoying playing the "cool big sis", but she is undermining Dora, and, indirectly, Jim and adult authority generally. Dora should ring Jim. It is not her call, or Faye's, to decide what it is OK for Jim's daughter to be doing. But hey, this is a comic, right? Rule of Funny, Belisario's Maxim etc. etc.
Kugai:
So, Faye and Sam are about to spring into action.
94ssd:
I was definitely allowed to go basically where I wanted at Sam's age as long as I didn't stay out super late. My upbringing wasn't very strict compared to most people's though.
--- Quote ---Small children take the metro alone regularly in Japan, but there's cops everywhere and it's pretty safe in general. It was definitely odd to me the first time I saw it though.
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My friends and I would ride the Rapid (Cleveland's lame above-ground public transit system) across town just for fun.
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