this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
3 points (71.4% liked)

Hacker News

616 readers
432 users here now

Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.

The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.

founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
3
Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone? (www.economist.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Because it's safe and children are taught how to navigate the subway.

Helicopter parenting is a recent trend in human history