Josh @ 30 said:

“Anyway I view modern child seats and child seat laws with the greatest disdain, all seems drastically overdone and likely to traumatize children and give them all sorts of neurosis about safety and parents and restraints.”

I have similar feelings but I’m also very protective of my children.

I guess that makes me a hypocrite.

When I was a child, we were pretty much free and loose after the age 6, e.g. we’d walk to school without adults and mobs of us would play out in the streets or cruise around the neighborhood on bicycles or homemade skateboards. It seemed a healthier and happier childhood than what kids have today. Of course back in my time, a pedophile was like a bear wading in a stream during salmon spawning time. It’s horrible to think about how many kids must have been victimized or murdered (although one almost never heard about this happening). Is it possible the pedophile thing is a recent phenomena? That’s hard to believe.