Freerangekids.com is a website that pops into my browsing every few months, and I'm surprised that there seem to be some similar themes to here.
Basically the whole premise of the site is that kids aren't incompetent morons who need to have their hand's held until they're 30, and that parents need to back off, let them try and fail, as part of becoming confident well rounded adults, and today's helicopter parenting is what's responsible for the current mess of snowflakes.
Adjacently, another consistent theme is that the world is safer than it's ever been, yet the perceptions and actions of the masses are opposite.
There are lots of great stories about men being vilified for little reason other than being a man, such as a man being attacked by another after helping a young girl try and find her parents because he thought she was being kidnapped.
http://www.freerangekids.com/man-trying-...y-her-dad/
A man who lost his dog and had the nerve to drive around in a van asking people if they saw it. Naturally this scared students at a local university, and despite the posters he put up and dead dog later found on the road, he was permanently banned from university grounds.
http://www.freerangekids.com/dad-looking...raduation/
The whole website seems to have a very pro-independence, get the gov't out of my family mindset. I recall things like walking to school at 5 alone, playing with friends with no adults present, but even I am cognizant that when my friends leave their 5 yos unsupervised for a few minutes, they're taking huge risks. Ironically I'm far more concerned about the outcome for my friends as a result of busybodies than I am about something happening to the kids.
Basically the whole premise of the site is that kids aren't incompetent morons who need to have their hand's held until they're 30, and that parents need to back off, let them try and fail, as part of becoming confident well rounded adults, and today's helicopter parenting is what's responsible for the current mess of snowflakes.
Adjacently, another consistent theme is that the world is safer than it's ever been, yet the perceptions and actions of the masses are opposite.
There are lots of great stories about men being vilified for little reason other than being a man, such as a man being attacked by another after helping a young girl try and find her parents because he thought she was being kidnapped.
http://www.freerangekids.com/man-trying-...y-her-dad/
A man who lost his dog and had the nerve to drive around in a van asking people if they saw it. Naturally this scared students at a local university, and despite the posters he put up and dead dog later found on the road, he was permanently banned from university grounds.
http://www.freerangekids.com/dad-looking...raduation/
The whole website seems to have a very pro-independence, get the gov't out of my family mindset. I recall things like walking to school at 5 alone, playing with friends with no adults present, but even I am cognizant that when my friends leave their 5 yos unsupervised for a few minutes, they're taking huge risks. Ironically I'm far more concerned about the outcome for my friends as a result of busybodies than I am about something happening to the kids.