Maybe, but what shocks me is how much quicker children seem to mature outside the US, like 6 year olds walking across town to get to school in Japan, its gotta be more than “how much do physically vs psychologically beat the kid”, and it doesn’t seem to be “just give the kid more responsibility” since I had an actual conversation with a 6 year old on a train ride in China, he was way more advanced than my 9 year old nephew, and the chinese kid was a private school, only child, so I can’t imagine he had much responsibility.
I think it has something to do with the type of enrichment a kid experiences, like being strapped to a carseat playing a “tap button on iPad, get reward” game is probably as bad for a kid’s development as locking them in a plain white room.
I think it’s at least in part because they’re allowed to mature. It’s a whole thing letting your kid go to a nearby store alone for the first time in Japan. In parts of America, you will be arrested for “neglecting your child” now if they do that. (That’s not hyperbole)
To be honest, my wife used to walk miles in Hartford, Connecticut to go to school.
I don’t think it’s a maturity thing. It’s literally not safe to let our kids travel by themselves. Look at them hiding the epstein stuff to keep businessmen safe. Everyone here is armed, people shoot kids who knock on their doors not infrequently.
Sure, to a certain extent the statistical odds of it happening are low, but they’re 0 in most other places in the world.
Maybe, but what shocks me is how much quicker children seem to mature outside the US, like 6 year olds walking across town to get to school in Japan, its gotta be more than “how much do physically vs psychologically beat the kid”, and it doesn’t seem to be “just give the kid more responsibility” since I had an actual conversation with a 6 year old on a train ride in China, he was way more advanced than my 9 year old nephew, and the chinese kid was a private school, only child, so I can’t imagine he had much responsibility.
I think it has something to do with the type of enrichment a kid experiences, like being strapped to a carseat playing a “tap button on iPad, get reward” game is probably as bad for a kid’s development as locking them in a plain white room.
I think it’s at least in part because they’re allowed to mature. It’s a whole thing letting your kid go to a nearby store alone for the first time in Japan. In parts of America, you will be arrested for “neglecting your child” now if they do that. (That’s not hyperbole)
To be honest, my wife used to walk miles in Hartford, Connecticut to go to school.
I don’t think it’s a maturity thing. It’s literally not safe to let our kids travel by themselves. Look at them hiding the epstein stuff to keep businessmen safe. Everyone here is armed, people shoot kids who knock on their doors not infrequently.
Sure, to a certain extent the statistical odds of it happening are low, but they’re 0 in most other places in the world.