9-year-old on the subway, alone
A mother in New York left her 9-year-old son in Bloomingdale’s with a Metrocard and a $20, and said, “See you later!” The son got home, in one piece and “ecstatic with independence”.
Of course, half the people she tells this story to want to turn her in for child abuse.
I just did the math, and I must have been 9 when I would take the Smith St. bus alone up to Mr. Falciglia’s for clarinet lessons. I truly doubt that the world is any more dangerous now than it was then: we’re just more aware of it, thanks to 24-hour news channels that need to fill programming time. I regularly post pictures of my daughters online, and proudly announced their births on the net — but any pictures of them that also show my brother’s kids have to be shared as friends-only, since he’s worried about people finding them on the Internet.
Posted by Garrett on April 28th, 2008 in Family, Security | 2 Comments

