Letting children learn on their own
mercredi 19 avril 2017 à 02:00In general, the way to keep your children safe from the occasional adult that might want to do them harm is to let your children learn how to handle doing things alone.
Age 9 seems rather late for a child to start walking around the city alone. The children in my elementary school walked to and from school at age 6. This was not in some quiet rural village — it was in the center of the world's largest city, in Manhattan.