Comments about ‘Kids should have fun outdoors’

So true, but if parents today let thier children do what I did as a child, they would be charged with neglect, and their children taken by the 'State'.

These were my first thoughts also, it used to be fun to be a kid. Nowdays if your not right there with your child your not a responsible parent.

Boy, I really feel sorry for children today. Growing up in farming country we used to go out in the morning and just return for lunch and finally dinner. We'd chop wood, tend brush burning fires and skinny dip in the river. If today's parents saw their kids up in some of the trees we climbed they would they would have little Madison, or Jackson, in "time out" for a week!

We have neighbor kids that wander the neighbor, in age from 2 to 8, when their parents don't know where they are. While I'm fine with that in theory, and at a certain age (I grew up in a neighborhood like that), it stresses my wife out because she's worried that if something happens to them while they're in our yard, she'll be held responsible. Given our society today, she might be right. What's the answer to that one?