Graphophobia: Let's start a new thread: What's on your mind?

Graphophobia: Let's start a new thread: What's on your mind?: "Keep up the good posts! You're doing well. Your topics are well-chosen and well-written. What more can I say? Continue the conversations. ..."Now when you are transiting the busy Manhattan streets beware of the reckless 4 year olds driving their training bicycles. Certainly it is not enough that we have to be alert for the coursing-taxi drivers, the crazy joggers, the threatening huge buses, regular cars, chariots, mad cyclist and even crazy pedestrians. I was surprised when I read this news in The New York Times. I’m not a psychologist, a pre-school teacher, anthropologist or any kind of human behavior expert. I’m just the mother of two. Based on my experience, I think that 4 year olds hardly know how to locate the own belly buttons. They are clueless, exploring and testing boundaries. It is the parent’s job to teach children right form wrong and to protect them. We protect our kids in any way we can, we block stairs, we cover the electrical plugs, we bathe them, feed them etc. Educating our kids on how to interact with the rest of the world is also a way to protect them. Parents need to monitor children’s behavior so they can educate. Yes, I will put the responsibility on the mothers that were with the children the day of the accident.

I also know from experience that mothers get tired, overwhelmed and some times we look for a little moment for ourselves. I know that you can get distracted in a conversation and kids can get into trouble in the snap of a second. I know, without fear of falling into a cliché, that we are only human. Children come to the world with and invisible tattoo that says: RESPONSIBILITY. There comes an age when parents start loosing control of their children’s acts. Children develop judgment by experience, learn what is good or bad and stand on their on but not at four years old.