I guess my immediate followup questions are “what age did you personally do X” and “by how many years you think it was too early/too late to do X”.
My prediction would be that most parents have a late development bias, where they see their children, or abstract children, less mature than themselves.
This initially seems like it would be better, but before doing the survey I considered it and decided not to do it because:
For a lot of these the age at which you first did it, or would have been ready to do it, is quite low, running into childhood amnesia.
Even when it is within a period of your life you remember it’s pretty hard, often, to figure out how old you were. Especially, how old you were when you did the first time as opposed to some random time you remember. And even for the latter, it can take some time to connect it to other events and match it up with an age.
There are a lot of ones where I would have been ready sooner, and I expect my parents would agree, but it just didn’t come up. For example, there were enough people around growing up that I don’t think I spent a night home alone before leaving for college.
Your guess about bias maybe right, but I think all three of my children are, so far, more mature and responsible than I was at their ages.
Was thinking the same thing when I thought about me with 11 who was more than capable to stay at home alone just fine. I don’t really get what is so special about being home alone at night.
I guess my immediate followup questions are “what age did you personally do X” and “by how many years you think it was too early/too late to do X”.
My prediction would be that most parents have a late development bias, where they see their children, or abstract children, less mature than themselves.
This initially seems like it would be better, but before doing the survey I considered it and decided not to do it because:
For a lot of these the age at which you first did it, or would have been ready to do it, is quite low, running into childhood amnesia.
Even when it is within a period of your life you remember it’s pretty hard, often, to figure out how old you were. Especially, how old you were when you did the first time as opposed to some random time you remember. And even for the latter, it can take some time to connect it to other events and match it up with an age.
There are a lot of ones where I would have been ready sooner, and I expect my parents would agree, but it just didn’t come up. For example, there were enough people around growing up that I don’t think I spent a night home alone before leaving for college.
Your guess about bias maybe right, but I think all three of my children are, so far, more mature and responsible than I was at their ages.
Was thinking the same thing when I thought about me with 11 who was more than capable to stay at home alone just fine. I don’t really get what is so special about being home alone at night.