Possibly not in later, adult life either where there are many expectations, rules, and laws by which we all have to live or face the consequences.
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I donât agree about the children riding their scooters to school.
I live opposite a bike path which is the route to a local primary and see the mums and dads with their kids on scooters everyday
What a lovely, happy start to the day it is, so much better than taking them in the car.
The children are having fun, getting some exercise and fresh air, which will wake up their brains ready for learning and it gets them there faster with no dawdling.
Lovely for the mums and dads to see them have a happy start to the day and carrying their little bags for them is no trouble, is it? A lot get hung on the handles of younger childrenâs buggies anyway.
They will still be responsible for their bags and belongings when they get there. And I often see the mums and dads riding the scooters home! What fun to be young and enjoying your family life.
Itâs just a modern way of doing things and doesnât mean the childrenâs are dictating. And I do enjoy seeing them
The foot propelled types are reasonably okay, but in my area more parents have been indulging their children with those pesky missiles know as E-scooters. Although illegal, the parents allow their children to ride them willy-nilly without any regard for anyone else. All you hear behind you is a string of abuse if anyone dares to get in their way.
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I havenât seen any little ones on electric scooters yet, the ones who go by my window are going to primary school.
It is a combined bike path/ pedestrian path divided into two lanes so if older kids used the bike lane for electric scooter I donât suppose it would matter too much, thereâs plenty of room for cyclists to pass
Yes, electric scooters on the pavement are a real nuisance and dangerous but I think they are the future, but licensed on the road. A lot greener than cars, itâs a good way to get around, especially in cities and urban environments
Your Dad had a car Susie?..
Too many distractions for kids these daysâŠ
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I tend to agree with you Foxy, but then didnât our parents & grandparents say the same about us ? 
I donât agree with a lot of kids ways but then I remember mums saying " Donât come to me for sympathy when you are ill after going out in that mini skirt"
Kids want to control their own lives, just like we did, and we all know that a lot of what the older people say is right! Kids donât want to be be controlled by what older people say, but on serious matters most usually learn who was right as they grow up. 
Ha ha yes, Mum was always saying that to me TwinkâŠ
Seriously though, the distractions today are far more addictive than the ones we had deal with. Very few kids or even adults, go anywhere without music or access to social media these days. Everything was left at the school gates in our day, and as an apprentice in an engineering factory I canât imagine what my boss would have said if we used a mobile phone while working, and music was banned except for the day before Christmas holidays. There would have been quite a few engineers with missing digits if such distractions were allowed at work. Itâs probably a good job that all the small engineering factories have closed down and we donât have manufacturing in this country anymore.
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You are right, but in our day discipline still existed at school as well as home. How the hell do you now stop young teenagers doing wrong things, when worldwide social media is encouraging them? 
And the pc brigade and their softly softly approach, oooo mustnât upset the kids now, some parents too.
Someone was telling me the other day her 12 year old went to hang out with her cousins house a ten minute walk back, she phoned her dad and said come pick me up I cant be bothered walking home, and he did!!!
When my two were teens we became a two car family, they thought I would become their personal taxi driver and they were sorely disappointed. Only time I picked either of them up was from very late finishing school Christmas Parties.
I think they had almost the same rules for children at Auschwitz .
Good grief, Bruce, that is a bit extreme!
It is true that some of our contemporaries had fairly harsh childhoods and either brought up their own children in a similar way, or went for the opposite
Neither the children nor the adult should dictate, it should be about loving, co-operative family life
I think itâs lovely the way a lot of children nowadays are having a gentler, kindlier upbringing. They are not things of evil who have to be forced into submission by harsh regimes and rules or they will destroy society!
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Thinking about this. I suppose, kids these days need to be confident as itâs a big bad world out there.
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Isnât it true though? Though perhaps the rules applied to the adults too.