You are in a family that has a parent with enough free time to drive kids around, as opposed to both parents having 4.5 jobs/hustles between them?
Cars + insurance + gas now cost as much as houses did 30 years ago.
Also, if you think your kids can just walk or bike or take the bus, go do a websearch for ‘parents arrested for child neglect for letting their kids walk 1/2 a mile home from school’ or something like that.
If you’re not from the US, well then much of this probably isn’t the case, or has viable alternatives.
If you are from the US, uh… yeah all this is valid, you don’t understand how privileged you are.
Some US states/cities are now just getting rid of public school busses.
All that money went to grants for private schools instead.
But you’ll probably still get CPS called on you if your kid(s) is(are) consistently truant.
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All that being said, raising your kids as off of Roblox, Fortnite, Tiktok as possible… that is a genuienly good thing to do.
Simply put, not everyone gets do to everything. It sucks but that’s the unfortunate state of life.
The original post is taking about spaces. Locations. Whether or not you have time or a car or whatever has nothing to do with the original post. My point is locations as per the original post do exist and the original post says there are none at all.
This is true, this is fact. Your ability to utilize a space has a lot of factors but the existence of them doesn’t.
I think the biggest difficulty is the change in dynamics for kids being able to be somewhere by themselves. (IE generally speaking if there isn’t a parent near them, you have to worry about CPS taking action), and 2. Biggest thing of “rich parents” these days is, single income that can maintain a household, as just finding the time to go somewhere with the kids is a huge challenge.
I was at a dying mall recently with a big area that had arcade games and stuff but also bikes and toys. It was perfect. I wish a place like that for all parents. It seemed like if Chuck E Cheese was run by the action park guy but impoverished.
Except for the bowling arcade place everything I mentioned is free. The jungle gym place is $25 to get them both in, wouldn’t call that rich territory
Can you get to all that stuff without a car?
You are in a family that has a parent with enough free time to drive kids around, as opposed to both parents having 4.5 jobs/hustles between them?
Cars + insurance + gas now cost as much as houses did 30 years ago.
Also, if you think your kids can just walk or bike or take the bus, go do a websearch for ‘parents arrested for child neglect for letting their kids walk 1/2 a mile home from school’ or something like that.
If you’re not from the US, well then much of this probably isn’t the case, or has viable alternatives.
If you are from the US, uh… yeah all this is valid, you don’t understand how privileged you are.
Some US states/cities are now just getting rid of public school busses.
All that money went to grants for private schools instead.
But you’ll probably still get CPS called on you if your kid(s) is(are) consistently truant.
…
All that being said, raising your kids as off of Roblox, Fortnite, Tiktok as possible… that is a genuienly good thing to do.
They are wretched hives of scum and villainy.
Simply put, not everyone gets do to everything. It sucks but that’s the unfortunate state of life.
The original post is taking about spaces. Locations. Whether or not you have time or a car or whatever has nothing to do with the original post. My point is locations as per the original post do exist and the original post says there are none at all.
This is true, this is fact. Your ability to utilize a space has a lot of factors but the existence of them doesn’t.
Simply put, we think you’re in a bubble. Not everywhere has parks.
I think the biggest difficulty is the change in dynamics for kids being able to be somewhere by themselves. (IE generally speaking if there isn’t a parent near them, you have to worry about CPS taking action), and 2. Biggest thing of “rich parents” these days is, single income that can maintain a household, as just finding the time to go somewhere with the kids is a huge challenge.
Mfw minimum wage
I was at a dying mall recently with a big area that had arcade games and stuff but also bikes and toys. It was perfect. I wish a place like that for all parents. It seemed like if Chuck E Cheese was run by the action park guy but impoverished.
Transport is not free. Time is not free. Distance to ‘free’ infrastructure is inversely proportional to income. Funny, that.
$25 is 3.5hrs of min wage before tax. Check your privilege