The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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Read on Hacker News…still do may be more at risk because e.g. drivers don't expect them. For a marvellous account of children being raised without any parental guidance, read Bill Bryson's "The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid." Highly recommended.
Read on Hacker NewsHave you ever read Bill Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir ( http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Thunderbolt-Kid-Memoir/dp/0... )? He talks a good amount of growing up in Des Moines, Iowa where all the kids used to just go out Saturday morning to a nearby field, meet new kids, and spend the entire day there before coming back home to dinner. Right now it seems the kids are too focused on their tvs and computers to go out and actually partake in the backyard baseball games.
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