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I don't remember ever being supervised

But we grew up in the country and didn't have neighbors within a mile and I had older siblings.

I have seen pictures of my brother being fenced in outside when he was little (he was the oldest)

maybe 5?

Probably 4 and all the kids were out. It's just how it was then.

Ummm... I'm basically still not allowed to play outside unsupervised..... Hahahaha. My mom would say "never"!

ETA: A 6 year old boy went missing from my neighborhood on July 4, 1981 and he was ultimately found molested and killed. He had walked up the street to get fireworks. Police helicopters hoovered around blasting his name that whole day. That was shortly before I was born and basically sealed my fate of supervised play for my entire life. I couldn't even walk to school in high school and the schools were in my neighborhood. I will likely be the exact same way with my own kids and I live in basically the most safe, ideal bedroom community of all time. So sad, but its a sick world. Does anyone remember Samantha Runnion?

I don't remember, but I'm the youngest of 3, so I played outside with my sisters at an early age. Oldest is 6 years older than me.
I do know that when I was 3 and my middle sister was 6, she and I walked about 2 miles to my mom's work while my dad was napping. Yikes! Hahaa... Oh, the good ole days..

6 or 7?

We lived in a townhome complex and all the kids played together.

I think around 5 or 6, but we lived in an apartment, so we would just play in the little courtyard with a bunch of apartments all around us. I remember at around 7 going down to a little creek nearby our apartments (different complex) with a friend and trying to catch crawdads.

First grade is the first time I can remember, I would walk to the corner store with my friend or down the next block to her house. Technically, there were times before that, but I was just in the front yard and my mom was in the kitchen/dining room which had a big picture window looking right out to where we played, so we could still see each other.

I still don't let my middle daughter (7) play outside unless her older sister (11) is outside with her.
I'm a giant worrier.

Probably 3. I don't really remember a time where I had to be supervised.

I don't remember a time when I was supervised, TBH. I distinctly remember playing outside with my brother and the neighbor kids as early as 3 or 4. I would never for my kids! Different times I guess.

Six or seven. I wasn't allowed off our street until I was older. Although I snuck around the corner all the time.

We lived in the country on a few acres of land so we played outside alone from a young age. My stepmom would peak out the window at us from time to time.

I don't remember ever being a set age? We lived in the country and we had to be in the veiw of the window. But we had no neighbors/long driveway so no issues with abduction or anything like that.

When I was around 7I remember my mom sending me to the bakery (less than 1 mile away) to buy bread. My friends and I would walk or bike all around the neighborhood.

I think 3 or so. Though the kitchen window overlooked our yard and mum would keep an eye out. At 5 I was allowed to ride my bike around the neighborhood and down to the local park with the other kids in my area. I got sent to the store around the same age to pick up milk and bread as well.