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Massachusetts in general has that cultural quirk and raising children there it actually concerned me. If they were trained to think that cars would stop for them and went to pretty much anywhere else, they'd be flattened. I remember just standing on the sidewalk one time, probably close to the curb, and a car came to a stop behind me to patiently wait. It seemed odd, and socially the fact that I wasn't interested in crossing seemed like they might take disrespect from it. But it was their assumption about me.

You can always have cautious children become more adventurous later, but it's unlikely to ever go the reverse direction.

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This is how traffic should be, everyone should communicate clearly and give way to pedestrians, including bicycles, Amsterdam cyclists are horrible at this. About your fear the fix is to tell your kids to look for that communication as well.

My breakfast view is a school crosswalk and all children wait for cars and cyclists, most even wait for a complete stop before crossing (N=100).