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Despite what some people tend to think, kids still do walk to school and back. Enough so that all the schools my own daughter has gone to have specific times and doors that walkers are supposed to use to leave, so they aren't in the way of the buses or the cars picking kids up.
But my objection wasn't to the kids walking someplace alone. It was specifically the beach, which is not safe for little kids without supervision, even if you don't count the danger of abduction. And the fact that they were being allowed to be away from home without supervision for several hours, and didn't have a firm time when they were supposed to come home, is also worrisome.

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin