https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/08/12-year-olds-playing-unsupervised-park/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:21:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/08/12-year-olds-playing-unsupervised-park/comment-page-1/#comment-301552 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:09:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=47868#comment-301552 Are you kidding me? My daughter was a Red Cross Certified Babysitter at the age of 12!

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/08/12-year-olds-playing-unsupervised-park/comment-page-1/#comment-301530 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:02:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=47868#comment-301530 The times, they aren’t changing, they have! In 1941, my older sister need the services of an eye specialist in Brooklyn for weekly treatments, but we lived in Staten Island. The solution was for me to accompany her on the visits. This entailed leaving our grammar school one afternoon a week, taking the bus to the Staten Island ferry to Manhattan; board a subway to Brooklyn’s Borough Park section; return to Manhattan, take the ferry back to Staten Island and a train to our home. As I said, the year was 1941, my sister was nine and I was eight. Unthinkable in this day and age, but a solution arrived at by my parents, who, coincidentally, were both lawyers.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/08/12-year-olds-playing-unsupervised-park/comment-page-1/#comment-301522 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:17:14 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=47868#comment-301522 I’m flabbergasted . At 13 I went on overnight backpacking trips with no adults. Kids can’t play by themselves at 12?!

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