Boy, 11, given CRASBO (From Kidderminster Shuttle)

• "@GGMommy
  
  "What happened in the "good old days" of riding bikes round the streets in the evening is not comparable to this I am afraid walkerno5!"
  
  I agree absolutely, riding bikes round the streets is fine, some of the things this kid apparently did are not fine.
  
  This, however, is alarming to me;
  
  "Things have moved on and I can guarantee that when my son gets to 11, I will know where he is! A boy who is 11 should not be on the streets by themselves or in a gang, its asking for trouble."
  
  I find this attitude appalling. You should have educated your son to deal with the real world by the time he's eleven and allowed him to engage in and with it. It is not asking for any more trouble than eleven year old boys have faced through time immemorial. What you are doing is stunting his social development.
  
  Even before eleven, I used to go out with my brothers and their friends on our bikes or to the park, this didn't make us a "gang". It's appalling that the language of criminality is applied so readily to any group of young people.
  
  
  
  " I am guessing that your parents and grandparents would leave their front door open whenever they were in or out? Also guessing that you dont do that anymore!"
  
  Lacking a time machine, it would be hard to prove, but I am pretty certain that any time since about 1955/1960 ish, that is, the time that people started owning expensive consumer goods and generally being worth robbing, most doors up and down the country would have been locked whenever the occupants were out.
  
  This reminiscence about leaving the doors open is nonsense."
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