There’s no way your grandparents left their kids to roam the forest as infants for hours.
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Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoOur grand parents did this kind of stuff all the time. Kids were allowed to roam free in forests for hours. Weirdly if she’d left the kids in a forest they probably would be fine.
A lot of the danger comes from car infrastructure. Parking lots might as well be the surface of mercury on a hot day with almost no shade. Traffic poses a lethal hazard to kids. Almost all shade is removed on purpose in public urban areas lest god forbid homeless people decide to hang out at a covered rest stop. And don’t even think of letting kids wander around shops or commercial areas.
Not saying this lady did anything right but society has to own up to its role in making urban areas hostile to children.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Right??! This was a 1 year old and a 2 year old for Pete’s sake!
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Its a twofold problem its not just “grandpa played in the forest as a small child” its also:
"people now work and run errands much further from their house in environments very hostile to children. As such monitoring children has become vastly more complicated than much of human historu.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
That’s all well and good, but nobody’s setting their infants loose in the forest for hours. You made up a story to add strength to your point and all it did was make you look ridiculous.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We’re replying to a story where a lady left an infant in a car. Do you really think people like this lady are a new development to human kind?I didnt say people leaving their kids in the forest infants in their forest were “good people making good decisions” but its a thing that absolutely happened.
Infant cries are very disturbing for evolutionary reasons.
My point is if this had happened in some natural environment it would be more survivable and there simply used to be more natural environments.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Papa always said not to ask why he doesn’t like gingerbread
themaninblack@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is not a generational thing if you live in Bakersfield or Visalia or Fresno. Most of the time I’d agree.
teegus@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
my kid would have killed himself clinbing up a ledge at that age. a 5 yo maybe, but i would need a source for your claim of 1 yos being left alone for hours in the forest
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There isnt a source because parents didnt do that. Its rose tinted glasses.