Comments on: Thinking different as you get older http://jasonplancaster.com/2007/thinking-different-as-you-get-older/ Dancing, Lindy Hop, technology, web applications, programming, design, user interfaces, climbing, and bouldering. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christopher M. http://jasonplancaster.com/2007/thinking-different-as-you-get-older/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Christopher M. Sat, 05 May 2007 15:36:29 +0000 #comment-403 No blog entry in a while...How goes the lumbering? No blog entry in a while…How goes the lumbering?

]]> By: Christopher M. http://jasonplancaster.com/2007/thinking-different-as-you-get-older/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Christopher M. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:46:23 +0000 #comment-399 This is a really interesting entry as it reminds me of a conversation I had with my father last weekend. He was telling me about a novel concept that is being implemented in many communities to combat childhood obesity. It is the concept of a walking school bus (http://www.walkingschoolbus.org). In a nutshell, a group of parents walk the neighborhood kids to and from school. When they ride their bikes together, it is called a bicycle train. I think it would be a cool idea to have a walking school bus in the neighborhood for my kids to take. My brother walks his son or they rode their bikes to school, all year long. In my sister’s case, they have the opposite problem, the kids are forbid from riding their bikes and the pupils can’t go outside for recess in case a child gets injured. When I was growing up we walked everywhere, took the bus into the city and biked on the trails. Crime statistics indicate that the crime rates are trended downwards but our perception or sensitivity has increased. I agree with the article, that a disconnect exists between perception of crime and its statistical reality. In one of Malcolm Gladwell’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell) books he has a chapter talking about this topic. Along the same vein, he discusses how a swimming pool is more dangerous than having a loaded gun in a house. Another book that looks at the same sort of issues is Freakonomics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics)<br /> <br /> The concept of propeller parents always hovering over their child’s every move is a growing problem. I heard it said that the problem only gets worse as children age. In some cases the college professor has to be interviewed by the parent before the son/daughter can take a college course. The student’s college roommate has to be vetted by the parents before the kid can move into the dorm. Have things changed with time or have our perceptions changed… This is a really interesting entry as it reminds me of a conversation I had with my father last weekend. He was telling me about a novel concept that is being implemented in many communities to combat childhood obesity. It is the concept of a walking school bus (http://www.walkingschoolbus.org). In a nutshell, a group of parents walk the neighborhood kids to and from school. When they ride their bikes together, it is called a bicycle train. I think it would be a cool idea to have a walking school bus in the neighborhood for my kids to take. My brother walks his son or they rode their bikes to school, all year long. In my sister’s case, they have the opposite problem, the kids are forbid from riding their bikes and the pupils can’t go outside for recess in case a child gets injured. When I was growing up we walked everywhere, took the bus into the city and biked on the trails. Crime statistics indicate that the crime rates are trended downwards but our perception or sensitivity has increased. I agree with the article, that a disconnect exists between perception of crime and its statistical reality. In one of Malcolm Gladwell’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell) books he has a chapter talking about this topic. Along the same vein, he discusses how a swimming pool is more dangerous than having a loaded gun in a house. Another book that looks at the same sort of issues is Freakonomics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics)

The concept of propeller parents always hovering over their child’s every move is a growing problem. I heard it said that the problem only gets worse as children age. In some cases the college professor has to be interviewed by the parent before the son/daughter can take a college course. The student’s college roommate has to be vetted by the parents before the kid can move into the dorm. Have things changed with time or have our perceptions changed…

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