Blindfolding Your Kids
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And dropping them off in the woods at night...
https://reason.com/2024/09/28/kids-should-be-blindfolded-and-dropped-in-the-woods-at-night/
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When I was about 12 and visiting relatives in Michigan, a cousin and I were in the woods at night when darkness fell. It was a cloudy night with a very heavy tree canopy. It was dark - so dark that even after adaptation, we couldn't see anything even a foot in front of us. We were on a trail - it wasn't even safe to move. One could have opened a roll of film and it would have been safe. Just about the time, I was thinking we should stay-in-place and hope either for someone to come looking for us, I remembered I had a tiny AM transistor radio in my jacket. I turned it on - and it had a very weak little dial light - but it illuminated the whole forest - because there was nothing else out there. We made it back to the house w/o incident. We didn't mention the stupidity of our hike to our respective parents.
