I am not following you around. I am also not of the mind to "penalize" people with thumbs-down, if there maybe is a difference in political opinion (as there are quite a few members on here doing so, I am a recipient of qu9ite a number of those in totally unrelated posts). Instead, wherever you got a thumbs-down, I am, sincerely, diagreeing with what you write. In case I would agree, you would get a thumbs up accordingly, and I seem to remember that I already did so on mutliple occasions. To the argument at hand: With regard to the children: I believe, statistically, the world in rural Germany -- likely all over the planet -- has not become more dangerous for children than it ever was; immediate news coverage of things happening in far-away places has. I would be a ,lot more suspect when my daughter would be at the main railway station, than at a nudist lake. The general risk for children to they encounter a deranged adult is infinitesimally low, and I also believe, children are not better protected by forbidding them to be outside alone, but by learning what a normal social interation looks like, and what would not be one. My daughter, of course, got her lectures on being wary with friendly strangers, to not accept food or drink, to not enter foreign cars, or take other unwarranted risks with people she does not know (eg groups of agrressive or drunk people, people behaving erratically). As was written in this thread before: most people laying hands on kids are from the direct social surroundings (most often immediate family, or maybe their sports trainer or teacher); not talking to strangers will not protect such a kid at all, on the contrary, by not knowing where normal boundaries lay in general, they might be additonally endangered by their own naivety. Therefore, biking along a nudist lake, swimming with friends in the same lake, or being polite in every-day interactions with people behaving normally while sitting -- even in the nude, or gay, or being a transvestite, or all three of those combined -- at this lake, do not belong in the list of prohibited actions. She is 10 years old, by the way, which is the age that children are out and about naturally anyways, alone or with friends, becoming more mobile by having their own bike etc. It is important, that parents protect their children; it is equally important, to not be overprotective and stymy their normal social development. The right way is in the middle, and it seems you have set the boundaries for your kids very different than I do, which is ok -- they are your children, not mine.
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