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tabbycat31

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77. When I was in elementary school (1985-1991)

Wed Jan 1, 2014, 10:12 PM

Jan 2014

The police came into our school at least twice a year for assemblies and showed us videos about 'stranger danger." We were taught that if we talked to a stranger, we were going to be abducted (of course as an adult I know that most child abductions are from someone that the child knows, ie a non custodial parent).

Playing with friends was not something that was spontaneous, it was a scheduled and organized 'playdate.' Sports were not a game of pick up baseball, it was Little League, etc.

I don't fault the children for this, blame it on the parents who wanted their precious little snowflakes to be sheltered from the world and arranged this.

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