"Jose" wrote in message
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[gatt] Say "Hang on. I need to go ask permission to go with you."

My impression (in general) is that our "safety conscious culture" is going
a bit overboard, and that this will have (is having) long term adverse
consequences. And although children are not little airplanes, the same
kind of thinking applies to them too. (just to bring it on topic)

Yeah, I agree with you wholly. I'm sure we've all seen both ends of the
spectrum; overprotective parents whose kids end up in trouble and
underprotective parents whose kids do the same. Or who don't end up in
trouble at all. (I ended up on both ends but managed to stay out of
trouble.)

If a kid doesn't skin his knees he'll not learn that missteps have painful
consequences, nor will he learn that he's tough enough to endure those
mistakes and improve because of them.

-c