Terry Sampson
Well-Known Member
Guess so. Fortunately for you, eh?But guess we are all raised differently.
Before I was 12, many of my childhood friends could leave their homes in the morning and go home after dark and never be asked where they had been by an adult. And that was in Oklahoma in the 1950s. And I laugh now because I remember wishing that I could be so lucky. Your notion that parents of a 12 year old kid ought to fret over the whereabouts of the kid if they don't know where that kid is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, is actually a very modern and very Western idea. Two thousand years ago, in Israel of that day, I suspect the life of children was just a little bit different. Today, leaving kids in hot cars is still a hot topic (cf. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=parents+forget+kids), and from time to time I still read an article in the news about some kid getting left behind in store or getting lost in a forest. My own brother (one of six kids) was left behind at a gas station and it was 30 minutes before anybody noticed.