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> We drive them around to sports practice and music lessons, where they are observed and monitored by adults, rather than the other way around.

Instead of focusing on the parents, another slant would be to highlight how difficult it is for kids in, eg, the researcher's home in southern California, to go places or do thing on their own, without an adult driving them around.

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Exactly, many neighborhoods today aren't even very conducive to visiting a neighbor. We are fortunate to live in a place where the homes are very close together and can be accessed without crossing busy streets. we have several neighbors with similarly aged kids and they can go play with each other all the time. personally, I would love to move to an estate property with a private fence and gate. but I really love that my kids can have some independence moving between the homes and playing nearby in the neighborhood.

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