Reply #55: Well, uh, I might not PUBLICIZE that I was leaving my kids alone.... [View All]

[moriah]

... ya know, where pedophiles might read it and decide to get ideas....

But at age 7 I was exploring the neighborhood and walking down to the park all the time. At age 10 I was riding the public bus system by myself to get to the private school Mom was sending me to after violence in the public schools got out of hand. It still worried Mom when I would take a different bus than the one we originally planned for me to take, so I would arrive about 20 minutes before her shift ended -- I had to walk about 10 city blocks in downtown that way, but I was able to meet her as she got out of work and we could take an earlier bus home together. The original way we planned was for her to meet me at the bus stop on the one that would have dropped me off about 30 minutes after her shift ended.

Then again, I remember seeing people dealing coke in the park down the street from me -- four of us kids were down there together and saw it go down, and took down license plate numbers and told our parents. I know my mother, at least, reported it, but we weren't restricted from going to the park after that.