>>>>When I was 12, I was getting paid to babysit for other people's kids.
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>>>>Tamar
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>>>That was then, this is now. I agree with you about how it was when I was 12, but today? Not on your life.
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>>I don't actually think the world is a lot more dangerous than it was. I think we're much more aware of what's going on everywhere, instead of just where we live. The Internet and 24-hour news has made us much more fearful.
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>>Tamar
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>Well, I don't know how things are in your part of the world, but when I was a kid, there were more parks to play pick-up ball in, more playgrounds to play basketball in etc. I look around now, and I wonder where kids have to go to do the things we did. Mostly what I see when I look around is parking lots and malls.
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>When I was a kid, we didn't go to the park and be accosted by guys twice our age selling crack either.
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>I can't answer for Elkins Park, but Toronto has changed dramatically since I was a kid.
Well, as I just said to Jay, I live now 10 minutes from where I grew up. There are actually more parks in Elkins Park than in the Philadelphia neighborhood I lived in. OTOH, we played in the schoolyard and in the neighborhood yards. I spent hours in the public library that was up the street. Even as an grade school kid, I used to stop in the drugstore across the street from school after school to get candy or a popsicle or a comic book.
In my house, the rule was really simple. You could wander around as much as you wanted (though I don't remember how young I was when that started), but when Mom rang her cow bell, you'd better here it and come home.
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