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Do you feel that there are two separate things here?
  • parents who want their kids to be extra super high achievers
  • parents who are unreasonably freaked out that their kids are going to be kidnapped
These can coexist in the same parent, but perhaps also can appear separately.
Yes, I think these two things are separate. In my experience, the first type is way more common than the second type.
I'm actually surprised by the high percentages of parents who think their kid would get injured or abducted at a park. That doesn't cohere with my personal experience and my understanding of my friends either.
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i don't see many kids walking around my neighborhood by themselves...
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I sometimes see kids out walking the dog on their own, or to the local Trader Joes. Maybe not the super young ones, but middle schoolers and up.
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