[quote=spdrun]OB has good sidewalks and has the ability to walk to interesting places (downtown, beach, etc) without 4 or 6-lane roads being involved. Those kind of areas are generally safer from a traffic perspective.
I’d say pot is kid-neutral, neither friendly nor unfriendly. Unless someone was air-dropping bales of it on a town, in which case the town has bigger problems.
Kids aren’t monks. They don’t need isolation and shelter to grow up, nor is it good for them. Seems like bearishgurl is one of the few posters here who “gets” it.[/quote]
LOL! I just dropped two 16 year-olds at the curbside (my kid and a friend) at the airport to fly to SF for a week. They’ll be staying in Portrero and taking public transportation to shop. They can lunch at the local delis which are walking distance to the house they’re staying in. They’re free to shop at Union Square and hang out in nearby SOMA while the relatives work.
If their parents had raised them in Lizardland behind a gated community, micromanaged their classrooms (as much as they could get away with, lol) and vetted are their friends and acquaintances all of their lives, these kids wouldn’t even know how to conduct themselves on such a trip! My own remaining kid has been flying to SF by themselves since they were 11.
I think we discussed here recently that your kid may end up in Beserkely (spdrun’s reference :)) or other similarly-situated public college campus and witness a fellow student in the dorms or apartments looking at porn on their laptop (heaven forbid)! If they don’t know anything about it because they have been “sheltered” all of their lives by “helicopter parents,” how are they going to react to this??
You are NOT doing your kids any favors by making sure they always have a plain vanilla, generic life in cookie-cutter land, IMHO. The world that they’ll have to make a living in is nothing like that. They may as well learn this fact of life early on.
