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Toddlers playing outside alone!

post #1 of 16
8/14/06 at 3:02pm
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I will never ever understand, why parents allow their toddlers, actually practically babies, play outside alone. It's nuts!
There are 2 little girls, around here, whose parents(their from 2 different families) that let that roam around alone outside. One is 3 and one is 2!
This is a townhouse complex, there is always cars coming in and out. One girls mother, leaves their front door open(what good would that really do though). The 2 yr old lives beside me. They wander around, and go on the road.
I would never let Sarah out alone, and she does not even leave the front of my townhouse.
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post #2 of 16
8/14/06 at 3:08pm
Yeah I know, I've seen similar around here. Nicole doesn't even go into the yard without me sitting right there watching. Too much can happen, a child can be taken right out of a fenced in yard.
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post #3 of 16
8/14/06 at 3:46pm
I've never understood that either. Around here, they let 3 and 4 year olds ride their bikes alone. We have a huge problem with speeders and these kids don't have enough sense to get out of the road anyway.

Mine are allowed in the backyard alone, but it is a 6 foot privacy fence and the gate is locked from the inside. Jessi is 10 and I let her ride her bike alone, but she has some strict boundaries. Cody is 6, and I still don't let him ride alone yet and with TJ 4, that's out of the question.

Alot of the neighbors think I'm overprotective ... may be ... but it won't be *my* kids that get snatched!
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post #4 of 16
8/14/06 at 4:01pm
My parent's street is terrible. About eight months ago a little girl across the street got hit by a car right in front of the house because they always leave her outside alone. My mom was so shaken up having to see that. There was another guy that lived diagonal from her that had a two year old outside alone all the time. He would leave his teen boys home to watch him and they never would. He was almost hit twice and both times my mom had to run out in the street and stop the cars!! We finally called the cops on them enough times that they moved. People just don't seem to care at all about their kids until something happens.
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post #5 of 16
8/14/06 at 4:01pm
I am the same Dawn, the boys play in the backyard alone all the time but I am checking out the windows often. Sometimes I think parents are just to lazy and dont give a crap, but they are the first ones screaming if something happens.
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post #6 of 16
8/14/06 at 4:03pm
That is crazy. I let the boys in our backyard alone because like Dawn we have a 6 ft privacy fence. But never in the front alone.
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post #7 of 16
8/14/06 at 4:10pm
i don't let my kids outside alone, b/c we don't have a fence yet
we eventually would like to fence in the backyard and then they might be allowed outside alone

we live on a main road and the people don't watch! i've seen a few kids who were in the range of 4-6 out riding bikes and walking along the road by themselves... there is no way that my kids will be doing that!!
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post #8 of 16
8/14/06 at 4:33pm
yeh i know what you mean !!!!! i NEVER let my kiddos out without me or hubbie !!! affugrh
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post #9 of 16
8/14/06 at 4:40pm
sorry about that last post my 4 year old got to it !!
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post #10 of 16
8/14/06 at 4:42pm
I was wondering what happened with all those icons!


I don't let my kids outside alone either... and Kyler's going to be 5.
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post #11 of 16
8/14/06 at 5:07pm
Yikes! I would never let my 2 and 3 year old play outside alone. They get in enough trouble when I'm watching them.
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post #12 of 16
8/14/06 at 5:21pm
I've never seen that here, but most of the kids in my neighborhood are older. I have seen 6 year olds out on their bikes alone. Luckily, there's not much traffic here, but drivers do not pay attention.
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post #13 of 16
8/14/06 at 6:36pm
Okay I guess I am the odd ball. I let the kids play outside. I am constantly watching them. They ride their bikes. Brittany can go down to the dead end and turn around and come back and Trey can only go in the driveway and the front sidewalk. Kids play out front and in back and on the sides of the house. Shoot they get in less trouble outside.
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post #14 of 16
8/14/06 at 9:23pm
i don't even let logan play in the backyard by himself yet.. too much stuff to get into
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post #15 of 16
8/14/06 at 11:06pm
I can't even imagine letting Emily play outside alone. I am sure that I am perceived as overprotective, but as Dawn said, I don't want it to be my kid(s) who get snatched. As y'all know from my other thread, I feel I can't be too careful.
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post #16 of 16
8/14/06 at 11:58pm
That is so dangerous. I hope nothing happens to those kids.
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