When I was a ten year old, my mom would leave me at the electronics section while she shopped at Walmart. Sometimes alone, sometimes with my little sister. She was still in the building and she trusted us to stay put and behave, which we did. We got to play video game demos and read strategy guides instead of being dragged around with her, so why wouldn't we?
These days, I can't see me leaving my future kids alone the same way. First off, most stores don't have demos or strategy guides readily available anymore. :( But more importantly, even if I trusted my kids to stay put and behave, I can't trust strangers not to try and start something. Even worse, I can't trust strangers to try and stop something if a creep did make a move.
Shit, man. Same, those were the best of days. Playing around in the demo isle of target/wallmart with your sibling while the parents buy stuff. Shame kids now-a-days can't do the same.
Yeah. When I was 10 (the 80's) my mom worked a 12 hour shift (6am-6pm) And she would leave me home alone while she went to work and would call me from work to wake me up for school. She would trust me to actually get up and go to school and I always did. And I would always come home and be able to be by myself until she got home because that's the kind of trust she had in me.
When I was a ten year old, my mom would leave me at the electronics section while she shopped at Walmart. Sometimes alone, sometimes with my little sister. She was still in the building and she trusted us to stay put and behave, which we did. We got to play video game demos and read strategy guides instead of being dragged around with her, so why wouldn't we?
These days, I can't see me leaving my future kids alone the same way. First off, most stores don't have demos or strategy guides readily available anymore. :( But more importantly, even if I trusted my kids to stay put and behave, I can't trust strangers not to try and start something. Even worse, I can't trust strangers to try and stop something if a creep did make a move.
Shit, man. Same, those were the best of days. Playing around in the demo isle of target/wallmart with your sibling while the parents buy stuff. Shame kids now-a-days can't do the same.
I did it in 2012 but after that stores tightened up on loitering or locked everything up because blacks moved in.
Spending an hour or more browsing lego sets and toy guns at the big toy store next to the grocery store, while mom and dad shopped was not uncommon.
Yeah. When I was 10 (the 80's) my mom worked a 12 hour shift (6am-6pm) And she would leave me home alone while she went to work and would call me from work to wake me up for school. She would trust me to actually get up and go to school and I always did. And I would always come home and be able to be by myself until she got home because that's the kind of trust she had in me.
You sure as hell can't do that today.
At 10 you probably still can