Parenting

I'm terrified of letting my kids roam, when they get old enough, like i did myself. But also, I want them to do it, and also without tracking them.

I suspect I will be even more anxious about letting them roam with a tracking device than without. I would probably check it too often, and freak out if the signal was lost or something like that.

I asked my parents recently if they were ever freaked out and nervous when I was out, and they weren't. I can't imagine it.

I feel like this issue is a hug problem in America specificly. People are terrified of letting their kids roam free and I believe its one of the factors that's led to the rise of anxiety in kids. I remembered reading a story where a woman let her son walk to the store alone in her rural town and litterly got arrested for that.