If you are pushing forty or are older the childhood you enjoyed, the childhood that made you the adult you've become has been outlawed. You probably played. With other children. Without adult supervision.
Then came molester vans.
Parents' paranoia went through the roof. No more free play. No more unsupervised anything. In the real world, parents became hyper-vigilant and unarguably over-protective.
Then came smart phones hosting social media. Irony set in. These helicopter parents allowed their little darlings unfettered, unsupervised to the anything and everything on the internet in their little hands. Swipe at will. How could these same vigilant parents become so laissez faire?
Does it even matter?
Somebody thinks so. Seems evolution is a real thing, and we evolved to develop as humans by way of human interaction. As children. Often with other children. Exclusively. A necessary playhouse with no parents allowed.
But we've made that illegal. Right here in Georgia. A mother, in Mineral Bluff, is potentially facing a year in jail because her 11 year old son, was out and about and decided to go to a nearby store. Less than a mile away. Some random busybody dropped a dime on the sheriff, who intervened with the full force of the law. We don't know anything about the busybody or if there is a backstory there. Never will. What we do know is that in your day an 11 year old was baby sitting neighborhood kids but now would not be allowed to walk to and from a neighbor's house.
This is beyond nanny state.
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