What age is too young...

[Dnaguy 11944]

28 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

At 9 or 10 we would ride our bikes on a busy highway a couple of miles to get to the fireworks stand.  Then  see who could light them and throw it in the air with just enough wick left so it would explode in the air and rain confetti.  Whenever one of our parents saw this they'd give us a stern lecture along the lines of "hey be careful”

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[JMFP 1120]

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Authorities found him walking alone after a concerned resident called police. Police took Soren, who was unharmed, home, but a few hours later they returned and arrested Patterson in front of her children.

I'm wondering if little Soren was just walking home or fucking around and causing trouble on the way... I admit I don't understand people but there has to be more to the story. 

[Grande Mart 511]

In 3rd grade, we'd ride our bikes about a mile to the convenience store to pick up smokes for my friend's mom. She had become acquainted enough with the people that worked there that they knew who we were and would sell them to us for her. 

[Grande Mart 511]

5 minutes ago, Grande Mart said:

In 3rd grade, we'd ride our bikes about a mile to the convenience store to pick up smokes for my friend's mom. She had become acquainted enough with the people that worked there that they knew who we were and would sell them to us for her. 

We'd also spend a bunch of quarters playing Spy Hunter or 1942 or whatever Arcade game they had at the time

[Dnaguy 11944]

Wait.

Is this another Matt Gaetz thread?

[royiv 9287]

34 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

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The average Dodgers fan has the IQ of a six year old.

[OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys 2072]

1 minute ago, royiv said:

The average Dodgers fan has the IQ of a six year old.

[mininghorn88 2282]

My son, now 29, is a no nonsense person. While he did play some video games the bulk of his time was spent outdoors being the typical country boy. When he was about 9 years old he was left at home alone which was a common thing to do. However, this time when I came home he was in his room with his door closed playing a video game. I quietly knocked on his door. He asked who was there. My reply was another soft knock on his door. Again he asked who was there. Again, I simply knocked on the door again. All of a sudden the door flies open and he is standing in a crouched defensive position holding one of his skinning knives for field dressing a deer. I am so thankful that I had not jumped through the door to scare him otherwise he would have gutted me.

[RDCanecutter 26411]

7 minutes ago, mininghorn88 said:

My son, now 29, is a no nonsense person. While he did play some video games the bulk of his time was spent outdoors being the typical country boy. When he was about 9 years old he was left at home alone which was a common thing to do. However, this time when I came home he was in his room with his door closed playing a video game. I quietly knocked on his door. He asked who was there. My reply was another soft knock on his door. Again he asked who was there. Again, I simply knocked on the door again. All of a sudden the door flies open and he is standing in a crouched defensive position holding one of his skinning knives for field dressing a deer. I am so thankful that I had not jumped through the door to scare him otherwise he would have gutted me.

So who was he in there skinning?

[BurntEyes 5970]

1 hour ago, mininghorn88 said:

My son, now 29, is a no nonsense person. While he did play some video games the bulk of his time was spent outdoors being the typical country boy. When he was about 9 years old he was left at home alone which was a common thing to do. However, this time when I came home he was in his room with his door closed playing a video game. I quietly knocked on his door. He asked who was there. My reply was another soft knock on his door. Again he asked who was there. Again, I simply knocked on the door again. All of a sudden the door flies open and he is standing in a crouched defensive position holding one of his skinning knives for field dressing a deer. I am so thankful that I had not jumped through the door to scare him otherwise he would have gutted me.

Does your son hang out on Rainey Street and despise "drunk" people while loving Chilean Sea Bass?

[Gatorubet 30211]

8 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

I figured once my boy was strong enough to break the chain keeping him in the pit out back, then there weren't no harm in him wanderin because he was likely the meanest cuss in the neighborhood.

We all know that the “no harm” was your boy getting free food from places other than your pit….after he out-fought the hogs for it. 

[RDCanecutter 26411]

1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

We all know that the “no harm” was your boy getting free food from places other than your pit….after he out-fought the hogs for it. 

Hell him and the hogs banded together against the Pit People, why'd you think I had him out there in the first place?

[Gatorubet 30211]

3 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Hell him and the hogs banded together against the Pit People, why'd you think I had him out there in the first place?

[CooterBrown 18006]

So who was he in there skinning?

We all know what he was doing…

[Willfully Horn 8008]

8 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

If there’s grass on the field, play ball. 

Yeah, the average age of puberty for girls in the USA is between 8 - 13 years, dude. 

I know the joke, but we are fathers.

 

[F250 28767]

10 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

... for a kid to walk alone.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-moms-arrest-puts-free-range-parenting-back/story?id=116004039

 

In Texas there's no law stating how old a child has to be to be left alone at home.  We started leaving our kids alone around 5 to make quick trips to the library to return books (1/4 mile away) and around 7 to drop the other kids off at daycare etc.  We let our three oldest kids (13, 12, 10) walk to the library or bike around the 10 miles of trails in our neighborhood.  I've let them bike to soccer practice (1 mile on the trails)- their school's closer than that.  This is crazy to me.

Eh, 5 years old is pretty fucking young to leave alone. That's neglect. I say this as a traditional Gen-X latch key kid.

 

[safe sex 11709]

11 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

If there’s grass on the field, play ball. 

Fucking gross, dude