Comments on: When I Was a Kid I Walked to School http://frankroche.com/blog/2008/06/04/when-i-was-a-kid-i-walked-to-school/ Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Tuna http://frankroche.com/blog/2008/06/04/when-i-was-a-kid-i-walked-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 The Tuna Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:01:21 +0000 http://frankroche.com/blog/?p=343#comment-1101 Frank, Like you I walked to school every day by myself, rode my bike to the other side of town to be with friends, and climbed to the top of every tree in my neighborhood. What I remember most was how us kids in the area would get together on our own and play baseball. No parents ever had to arrange anything for us. I was reading an article about how parents have started calling in to where there children work, and complaining to the manager if they get a less than stellar performance review. Where does it end? let them grow up. Frank,

Like you I walked to school every day by myself, rode my bike to the other side of town to be with friends, and climbed to the top of every tree in my neighborhood. What I remember most was how us kids in the area would get together on our own and play baseball. No parents ever had to arrange anything for us.

I was reading an article about how parents have started calling in to where there children work, and complaining to the manager if they get a less than stellar performance review. Where does it end? let them grow up.

]]> By: The Tuna http://frankroche.com/blog/2008/06/04/when-i-was-a-kid-i-walked-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-4473 The Tuna Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:01:00 +0000 http://frankroche.com/blog/?p=343#comment-4473 Frank, Like you I walked to school every day by myself, rode my bike to the other side of town to be with friends, and climbed to the top of every tree in my neighborhood. What I remember most was how us kids in the area would get together on our own and play baseball. No parents ever had to arrange anything for us. I was reading an article about how parents have started calling in to where there children work, and complaining to the manager if they get a less than stellar performance review. Where does it end? let them grow up. Frank,

Like you I walked to school every day by myself, rode my bike to the other side of town to be with friends, and climbed to the top of every tree in my neighborhood. What I remember most was how us kids in the area would get together on our own and play baseball. No parents ever had to arrange anything for us.

I was reading an article about how parents have started calling in to where there children work, and complaining to the manager if they get a less than stellar performance review. Where does it end? let them grow up.

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]]> By: Merci http://frankroche.com/blog/2008/06/04/when-i-was-a-kid-i-walked-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Merci Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:02:10 +0000 http://frankroche.com/blog/?p=343#comment-1099 Just tonight I was looking at a photo of me a couple of months before my fifth birthday. I was playing outside in the snow with my friends Gary and Jeff. I commented that we always played outside, and our parents weren't always out there with us. There were lots of moms home all day, though, watching us out the kitchen window while they made dinner. Any one of them (even if you didn't know them)was welcome to let us know it if we were doing something reprehensible. There was a general blanket of supervision across the neighborhood, rather than one helicoptering parent for each of us. Guess we were the generation that was raised by a village. I think it was a good way to grow up. Just tonight I was looking at a photo of me a couple of months before my fifth birthday. I was playing outside in the snow with my friends Gary and Jeff. I commented that we always played outside, and our parents weren’t always out there with us. There were lots of moms home all day, though, watching us out the kitchen window while they made dinner. Any one of them (even if you didn’t know them)was welcome to let us know it if we were doing something reprehensible. There was a general blanket of supervision across the neighborhood, rather than one helicoptering parent for each of us. Guess we were the generation that was raised by a village. I think it was a good way to grow up.

]]> By: Merci http://frankroche.com/blog/2008/06/04/when-i-was-a-kid-i-walked-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-4471 Merci Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:02:00 +0000 http://frankroche.com/blog/?p=343#comment-4471 Just tonight I was looking at a photo of me a couple of months before my fifth birthday. I was playing outside in the snow with my friends Gary and Jeff. I commented that we always played outside, and our parents weren't always out there with us. There were lots of moms home all day, though, watching us out the kitchen window while they made dinner. Any one of them (even if you didn't know them)was welcome to let us know it if we were doing something reprehensible. There was a general blanket of supervision across the neighborhood, rather than one helicoptering parent for each of us. Guess we were the generation that was raised by a village. I think it was a good way to grow up. Just tonight I was looking at a photo of me a couple of months before my fifth birthday. I was playing outside in the snow with my friends Gary and Jeff. I commented that we always played outside, and our parents weren’t always out there with us. There were lots of moms home all day, though, watching us out the kitchen window while they made dinner. Any one of them (even if you didn’t know them)was welcome to let us know it if we were doing something reprehensible. There was a general blanket of supervision across the neighborhood, rather than one helicoptering parent for each of us. Guess we were the generation that was raised by a village. I think it was a good way to grow up.

]]> By: Sarcasmom http://frankroche.com/blog/2008/06/04/when-i-was-a-kid-i-walked-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 Sarcasmom Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:23:03 +0000 http://frankroche.com/blog/?p=343#comment-1098 I first heard the term \"helicopter parent from my youngest daughter who is now a dean at a college in New York. At the time she was an RD at another college in NY. She also used the term \"Lawnmower Parents\" THey run over you and anyone else in their way in order to make sure their kid is fist, best and gets what they want. She also called us one day and thanked us for raising her to be able to make a decision. SHe said so many students were away from home without the ability to do so on their own. I first heard the term \”helicopter parent from my youngest daughter who is now a dean at a college in New York. At the time she was an RD at another college in NY. She also used the term \”Lawnmower Parents\” THey run over you and anyone else in their way in order to make sure their kid is fist, best and gets what they want. She also called us one day and thanked us for raising her to be able to make a decision. SHe said so many students were away from home without the ability to do so on their own.

]]> By: Sarcasmom http://frankroche.com/blog/2008/06/04/when-i-was-a-kid-i-walked-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-4470 Sarcasmom Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:23:00 +0000 http://frankroche.com/blog/?p=343#comment-4470 I first heard the term "helicopter parent from my youngest daughter who is now a dean at a college in New York. At the time she was an RD at another college in NY. She also used the term "Lawnmower Parents" THey run over you and anyone else in their way in order to make sure their kid is fist, best and gets what they want. She also called us one day and thanked us for raising her to be able to make a decision. SHe said so many students were away from home without the ability to do so on their own. I first heard the term “helicopter parent from my youngest daughter who is now a dean at a college in New York. At the time she was an RD at another college in NY. She also used the term “Lawnmower Parents” THey run over you and anyone else in their way in order to make sure their kid is fist, best and gets what they want. She also called us one day and thanked us for raising her to be able to make a decision. SHe said so many students were away from home without the ability to do so on their own.

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