As a Scandinavian I have to point out, besides being healthy, kids in strollers out side is safe. If anybody naps a kid you got an entire nations viking blood surfacing.

Y'all have no idea how much taking a sledgehammer to a pile of scrap and lighting it on fire would have helped me as a child. Instead I learned to bottle up my emotions and push them deep down until they turned into bitterness and resentment. Hooray for protective parents. Sure protected me from enjoying childhood.

My mom used to leave me home alone since I was 4, I usually just ate, watched tv and slept, never had an urge to go and accidentally kill myself of something. Mom was mad that I tried to apply her makeup on several occasions, though :D

The US is a pretty f-d up place. Yesterday, my eight-year old packed a backpack and left for the woods for 6 hours. She did bring her cell phone, but when I called her to come home for lunch, she was a few kilometers from home and told me she’d packed some sandwiches. I’m so proud. She will turn out self-reliable and strong 😁

My parents didn't know where I was 90% of the time. It was awesome. True freedom at its finest.

Here in the Netherlands the heir to the throne cycles to school on her own. Which is a public school btw. I think she's six right now.

Plot twist, the kid couldn't read the game menus and missions for the Playstation game.

Yes in Europe 6-7 year old also use the subway, u guess what? Nothing happens to them. You go with them for the first month and they know everything.

😂 this needs to be a law? What the hell is going on

Well yeah the chances of being randomly shot in Scandinavian countries are way less

Allowing kids to do what they once were always able to.

When we were kids we were thrown out of the house at nine o'clock and we weren't expected to return until dinnertime!

I absolutely love this guy! He makes me laugh at the stupidity of others when I am about to lose my mind over the stupidity of others!

In the summer holidays we used to go out on a morning and come back until dinner time at about 6pm.

That there has to be a law which allows parents to raise their children as independent human beings without fear for penalization is mind-boggling as a German...

In Germany children HAVE to go to school. They would take your kids away if you keep them from going ;)

Unfortunately this was actually needed. I live in Utah and last year a neighbor called the police bc my daughter was playing in the yard while I watched out the window, and her older sister was across the street in the neighbor's yard. Yes that actually happened. I live in a super safe suburb where I feel totally fine about my kids going out to play on our block but a handful if neighbors have been quite uppity about it.

South West Germany style in rural areas lunch: „Bye boy, be home before it gets dark“!

I love that Jim is so well rounded. A funny jerk one moment, and a stand up great guy another moment :)

People are so insanely paranoid here, it's unreal.

Independence is important for young people!

Unschooling: The rise of the new dark ages

Anyone else want to go to that adventure park even though you're an adult?

Over the top lesson in moderation. Love it.

I had a fantastic (UK) childhood and adventure playgrounds were a great part of that. Zip wires, climbing platforms, bonfires, grass slope toboggans..... We climbed trees (fell out of some of them) , jumped into ponds and rivers, skinned our knees and bloodied our noses. It was fucking great.

Props to that one guy laughing louder than the rest, finally someone who truly understands and appresiates dark humor.

There always people that go into the extreme for both sides 🤦🏻‍♂️

A confession: I wish they had that fire pit when I was younger. I would have never started that abandoned building fire in the 80s throwing paper airplanes set on fire out my window.. 😬😬😬 Loads of fun tho...🔥 And a whole lot of abandoned buildings in New York City in the 80s 😂😂😂

There’s always that one guy laughing twice as loud as everyone else

My parents wouldn't let me leave the neighborhood alone after 9 PM until I was 16. Not that it actually stopped me. I live in Sweden

"I'm guilty of it too??" You gave your kid food poisoning man!! 😂😂😂😂😂

I’m not sure how but him gives explanations so well while being funny at the same time and I still don’t know how

Okay that "adventure playground" in the UK is absolutely nuts lmao, I can't even imagine that existing here in the USA. There'd be thirty lawsuits in half as many days.

That adventure playground in the UK looked like so much fun!

I live in the UK I've never seen a playground like that. Lol xD

Haha 😂 This is fucking awesome another great video Jim keep it pushin man💯🥃👊🏼🍻

They should teach credit card debt, how pay bills, taxes in schools.

0:30 - Are they just allowing child negle... 1:00 - wtf you mean that's what's considered child neglect!?

I am SO glad I never made the mistake of making one of those self propelled crotch warts.

I remember my first fire in the park, sweet memories

1/10 no wobbly ghosts

My daughter loves doing math exercises! She's a first grader and - out of nowhere - says sometimes something like "4 times 4 is 16" and then the math question start until she doesn't want to do more. It's just a matter of motivation ;-)

I grew up in the 80s, and I played with fire often!

Lawn mower parents are even worse.

As a little kid I wanted to find out where the stream near our house originated from and one summer when it was dried out I walked upstream unintended without my parents even knowing what I was doing or rather trying to do and today I study Informatics at university. You wonder what the outcome of my little expedition was? Obviously I did not find the origin of that stream and when it got late I walked back home. BTW a few years later we where on holidays in Austria in the winter and there was a stream near our in the Alps apartment, too. And yes, as you probably guessed me and my younger brother attempted to find the origin of that one too and walked upstream in freezing conditions and actually after hours of walking we found it. We took water spring and filled it into bottles and walked back to our apartment. Oh and our parents just knew that we were playing outside. They had no idea what we were doing. Sadly when we were back and taking a shower to unfreeze again my mother threw the water away because she had no idea what it was. And no, our parents didn't neglect us. They supported us at school as much as they could (and as much as we let them) but back then whenwe were little they just left us our freedom to explore the world which I am very grateful about to this day.

That British playground looks like something from The Lord of the Flies

How do you know you had a helicopter parent? When you consider orphans lucky.

I grew up in the 80/90’s in the netherlands…..👍👍👍

1:47- 8 year old me is so jealous. In fact we need this kind of place for adults too.

The "pihe hup" drove me crazy

As a kid I straight up was outside from sunlight till the street lamps came on, and usually way after that. From the creek down the street, to miles down the train tracks

Here in Hawai’i, I think parents are quite a bit less hovering...and I think part of it is that it’s considerably safer here, and it’s also partially because the weather’s so good all the time that kids play outside more all the time.

Wobbly Ghost!

It is funny that what he mentioned in the beginning of this video about kids go outside for hours and come back at night. In my country, this is the general rule, a kid stays at home or go out only with his parents or go to a specific kids play area is the exception. I remember that we used to gather small woods and set on fire to cook a potato, maybe I brought some of the potatoes back home too!!

wow! conservative utah did something progressive in the name of the good ol’days... cool

At 13 i was going on camping hoildays in the yorkshire dales did see an adult all week. I use to wander round with my mates and think nothing of walking a few miles and stopping out all day. My kids started going to school by them selves at 7 year old they use to go out at 9 am on a weekend and come home when they got hungry

Is this going to be this weeks episode or what episode is this from?

i was doing all the time in Soviets , even when i was at younger age than they are. In fact , we were allowed to buy matches at any ages.

I remember, my parents at least told, as I was a baby, i was left in that baby stroller in winter, like they put warm stuff so that i won't freeze and all other stuff. I remember when i was a kid, in summer you came back to home only for sleeping. Sometimes. And nobody give a F. "Your child ? Oh yea, i saw him playing there with other children. " And then your parents went like to 5 neighbors to finally find you. Nobody give an F where you are. They know that you are something around a house and that was ok.

I've never been to an adventure playground like that

Best tip I have for parents is to read books on parenting or on developmental psychology. Early childhood is a very vulnerable state and being overprotective could actually harm your child more than it does any good. So many parents just parent like they've learned from their parents instead of actually reading up about it a bit. I mean really, read a book.

I don’t understand why parents would want to keep kids safe. Kids need to learn pain but they need to learn how to deal with it on their own as well or in groups. Playgrounds as an example, kid falls, kid gets hurt, kid feels pain, kid cries, pain goes away, other kids feel helpless or laugh at the kids pain. Natural reactions that later get explained on tv or school. On another note, if a child dies can’t you make another? It’s no like it takes a country to make one like it takes to build a new car from scratch off paper and ship in resources from around the world to make it.

I love this guy

The English playground: that looks nice.........wait........that’s some Lord of the Flies shit right there.

Eat, drink, and be merry, you might be in Utah tomorrow.

Those adventure play grounds look fucking lit!! I’m 25 and I want to go break stuff with a hammer

It blows my mind that it even exists that someone can call the police or child services on another for a child playing outside in their own yard on their own property. Now if a child was injured doing something, and someone noticed no one came outside, then I could envision a problem. But here in my area of the country, kids play on playgrounds with parents walking the track that surrounds it. Kids play in yard and that's the responsibility of the parent for their children or other's personal welfare. In the old days, and perhaps you or your parents recall this, we used to ride Big Wheels.. We'd create ramps and such out of wooden boards and fly down them. If we got hurt, we'd either run for a bandaid or just pass it off. Parents did clamor to the parents next door, threatening to sue them for their little Johnny having been injured. and then again, we didn't have pedophiles roaming the neighborhood to take kids. And of course if we caught something on fire, depending on the damage, the kid was admonished and sent home. But now they can be thrown into juvie, charged with arson, and parents lose custody, fined and forced to repay for the resources to put out the fire and lose their own home.

Too many hungry dingos.

Kids in England are free....

Hearing stuff like this about other countries makes me appreciate my country's Constitution even more.

1:44 I’m 14 and lived in the uk my whole life never seen this before

Helicopter parents create future Karens

I had a great childhood had a whole village to play in

*Black Mirror "Arkangel" intensifies*

Whenever I had the urge to blow shit up as a child, I had an Atari.

As a kid I would literally disappear for hours. From light to dark I was usually gone. Shit one me and a few other dumb ass kids hopped a fucking train and got lost for like 6 hours, just gotta teach kids to recognize danger and unsafe situations

When I was a kid (back in the 60s), we would leave the house, get on our bikes and just keep going. One day we rode so far we ended up in Vietnam during the Ten Offensive. It was intense! You don't know. You weren't there!

We had fires growing up..my neighbor lit a rat on fire and well it turned into a ball of fire. Good Times!! 😳

When I was 9 I was given my first boat [dinghy] Me and my friend in his boat, would paddle all around the neighborhood. We were restricted from entering the Intracoastal Waterway, but we did anyway. Who cares, the parents were at work! I suppose by the time I was 12, me and another friend would ride our bikes from Largo up to Clearwater. We'd be gone for HOURS. No one cared.

Seems to me parenting is about teaching youngsters to navigate life, part of which is owning up and overcoming personal screw ups and the inevitable bricks upside your head over which you have no empowerment to dodge. The more skills you teach them, the more likely they will survive, have the the potential to thrive.

I took buses in Poland as a 4 year old to my cousin's house. Adults didn't even look twice

0:51 Love that one guy's laugh.

Lol, unschooling has different levels. When my siblings and I were young we were taught (by parents) to read, do maths, etc; but it was still far less structured and rigorous than school is in our area, and often less structured (and less 'helicoptery') than the other homeschoolers we knew, who often had SUPER obsessive parents involving themselves in EVERYTHING, far more than the kids we knew who actually went to school. We turned out all right; we did need a bit of that structure because...yeah. Most kids don't WANT to learn math, and many don't want to learn to read either. But overall, unschooling worked out fairly well for us.

When I grew up we had a time on the weekends from lunch to dinner that we ran amok. Parents would throw you out the door and say be home for dinner. We all survived.

To anyone thinking about posting a negative comment about Jim: please provide his shill Regis Glass with the exact context, reference or question so that he can try to undermine your credibility.

Those parents are like wobbly ghosts

I know about this adventure playground, I have friends whose kids go there. To be clear, *there is permanent, paid, adult supervision,* trained in first aid. The entrances and exits to the park are also supervised, and the park is fenced off, so no one can run away (except in an emergency evacuation), or snatch a child, and the children are protected from the biggest things parents fear - road accidents and paedophiles. That "axing pallets and burning them" might look insanely irresponsible, but that spot is designated for bonfires for Guy Fawke's Night (Burn a Catholic Effigy night for non-Brits) where the adults and children often gather, toast marshmallows and tell stories. You can see ashes from the previous fires underneath them, and also... where do you think they got the pallets from? So yeah, breaking pallets and burning them in this spot 👍 starting a fire anywhere else or breaking anything other than wood to be burnt or hurting people 👎... Think of it like an open door "Scouts" club, without the *Jesus, homophobia or sexism,* _not "Lord of the Flies"!_

Lol the only thing my parents would say is when the street lights come on you need to be home.nothing about where I was or what I was up to an I was doing so wicked shit but was always home when those lights turned on haha

I’m fine too, I was going to school alone

I set hay bails on fire once when I was a kid. The fire dept and to come and put it out after my pal and i ran out of piss.

Lord of the flies when i saw the UK kids. But , i agree too much attention can be harmful.

I thought that place was called "The Woods".

Respect for utah

Hermoine; *Its Hel-LA-Copta not Hel-LEE-Copta!"*

I'm Costa Rican, as a child in the 80s I'd walk alone about 1 km to school and that was normal

Bless your 1900s sense a humor jimmie these views would be amazing in those days

Over protective parents caused manbuns.

i used to do long division for fun. you can keep going to hundreds of decimal places lol. also square root non square numbers in my head using trial and error to get more and more accurate results if i was bored. i also played a lot of playstation, but theres more to intelligence than just going to school. im just better than everyone else

I wasn't allowed to play in my own backyard alone until I was like 14. I couldn't walk to our suburban downtown, 3 blocks from my home, until I was 16. I was never allowed to have anyone in my bedroom. Period. I could not pick my own clothes until college. Growing up, the bullying was so bad, I had no idea what "cool" was. All music I listened to had to be "approved" by my mother until I was about 17. I could not be in a car with anyone but my brother or parents .... ever. By 17 I was self harming regularly and suicidal. Yes, I graduated from a good college but am severely mentally ill from this over parenting. Please, please, please don't raise your daughters like this.

Anyone born in the 90s would remember getting *LOCKED OUTSIDE* becuz you cant waste a nice day