I started walking to the mall when I was 12. if you legally can get your babysitting certificate at age 11, you`re certainly old enough to go shopping by yourself.
good thing your not prime minister of canada then. although the same law applies to the united states as well. if they can walk to school, why the heck cant they walk to the mall, spend a few hours in the bookstore, the music and dvd store and possibly buy clothes?@@not-the-founder-of-rome
@@garconerproduction3046 Because a walk to school is a couple miles and takes maybe 30 minutes. Also taking that route is probably other children who they are probably walking with--or at least people who would be aware enough of their surroundings to stop a kidnapping. Why do we let kids walk around town but not in the woods? Different places call for different scenarios. Sure, if they're going with a large group of kids, then maybe it's fine depending on maturity, but alone for hours? I don't think that's fine. Maybe I'm paranoid because I grew up in a city with a very high crime rate per capita, but where I live and when I was twelve-ish, it was uncommon to see kids my age around the mall without at least an older sibling.
maybe I`m confusing 12 for slightly older, it was 34 years ago, but I know my mom would at least drop me off at the bay for boxing day sales and pick me up 3 hours later around that age. I was the oldest sibling, and there was no way I`d walk around with my younger sister. she literally hated me. oh and no wonder 10 year olds are acting like toddlers this generation if people are treating 12 year olds like 6 year olds nowadays. its not healthy for their development.@@not-the-founder-of-rome
I don't know. Maybe 30 some years ago kids were expected to be more mature, but I don't think we're treating twelve year olds like six year olds now. Standards have just changed. All I know is in the 2010s our parents were taking us to the mall and begrudgingly going into Clare's to get two dollar lip glosses, not places where a lipstick goes for thirty dollars.@@garconerproduction3046
oh and these 10 year olds are acting like toddlers. it reminds me of stories of store clerks finding 3 year olds who wandered off from their mother and were now pawing through the underwear displays. 10 year olds used to act much better.
