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by latentsea
19 days ago
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Do you realise the solution is just to accept some kids will wind up as collateral because parenting alone can't solve it, and rather than trying to solve it through technology (which won't work anyway) we have to accept that we'd rather have the crime and our freedom? We can't kid ourselves that parenting is a solution, just as we shouldn't kid ourselves that technology isn't either. The answer is maybe stop thinking of the children. |
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Of course I'm on your side here, there must be a healthy balance, which modern child micromanagement, and zealous survellance in general, are quite an opposite of. Saying this as someone who survived my happy 80-90-s childhood, roaming freely wherever we wanted with my friends, doing kid things many modern parents would be terrified of, like climbing various industrial structures, crashing on our bikes and sleds and whatnot. And still being an exemplary homeboy in the eyes of my parents and neghbours. Sure, some of my friends didn't make it through perfectly unscathed, some broke a bone or two, and I still have that scar from the sled blade, but that's the way of life.
One can't turn the world into a perfectly safe utopia without turning it into complete dystopia in the process. Education and culture is what makes it safe without such side effects.