I didn't get to walk home until 7th grade. It's about 2 miles away but I cross no big streets and there's lots of children walking down too so.. I feel safe.

 

Personally, I remember walking back and fourth from school in elementary, pretty young, like in Grade 5 or something.. but always in a group or with my sister... Safe neighbourhood though so there wasn't much to worry about, but I guess there's always a possibility..

If it were my kids, I'd say until they are 13.. As long as they are with a group of people though, I'd feel comfortable.. but there's no bigger tragedy than seeing your child being kidnapped.. so take all precautions necessary..

 

knowing how mischevious I was when I was a kid... prolly not till my mid-teens

 

ahah... true.... I remember getting kicked off the bus for swearing, and stealing my mom's cigarettes in 4th grade....then stealing cartons of them from my neighbor who owned a restaurant.... we would go up in the woods and smoke them.... now my son is in 3rd grade and I cannot even imagine him doing that stuff...

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by vananron
Dude it's a joke.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by turbo_pwr
I have a neighbor (single mom) who has to leave for work early every morning.

 

The best way to deal with high stress situations, or with bad things happening, is to try to keep a lighthearted feel to everything. It's the people who cannot distinguish the difference between a joke and reality that are the problem. Look, I mean I could joke about anything. I do not adhere to what is PC or not. Especiallly people who have BEEN thru the situation have the right to joke about it.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by vananron
The best way to deal with high stress situations, or with bad things happening, is to try to keep a lighthearted feel to everything.

 

First off, that is not the context of the joke that I presented, that would be directly joking about the situation. So your telling me that if a handicapped person made jokes about it, that it would not be okay. Or say if a 6 year old kid who was left outside at night, because theirr parent were drunk, and the kid got pnuemonia because of it, and then was kicked and thrown around by drunk adults decided to make a joke out of it to help them cope with it, you are saying that is not okay, cuz I was that kid. and I am okay with it.

As for a right time and a wrong time for humor, I agree, but this is a place on a god damn car website in which humor is okay. If you have a problem please let me know via PM

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by vananron
First off, that is not the context of the joke that I presented, that would be directly joking about the situation.