I walked and biked to school when I was a child. As a teen, as soon as I turned 14 suddenly I was needed much more at home to parent my sister while my mother worked and I was forbidden to go out in the evening or at night because good children didn't leave the house. Those years to me were like prison. I saw what was happening to parents being more obsessive over their children and once I became an adult I opted not to participate in the whole child-rearing thing. I wasn't willing to imprison my own children.
I walked and biked to school when I was a child. As a teen, as soon as I turned 14 suddenly I was needed much more at home to parent my sister while my mother worked and I was forbidden to go out in the evening or at night because good children didn't leave the house. Those years to me were like prison. I saw what was happening to parents being more obsessive over their children and once I became an adult I opted not to participate in the whole child-rearing thing. I wasn't willing to imprison my own children.