That's funny, Ross, because a friend of mine was just telling me the
complete opposite.
She's raising her kid here as well. She babysat for me about a month ago
and after taking my son to the tot lot was just amazed by the difference
between now and 10 years ago. She spoke at length about the great community
of other families and caregivers here now. When her son was little, she
felt isolated and lonely as a stay-at-home Mom. She hated taking her son to
the turtle lot, where he eventually fell on the stone wall and had to get
stitches, because she was alone for long stretches and there weren't many
kids around for him to play with.
She said she might have had more kids if she were raising them in the
current community.
Hilary Bonta
Funny. Maybe my memory is giving out, but I'm almost positive that my son,
born in 1987, spent a good portion of his tender years in that dangerous
drug-infested space, and as I recall, really enjoyed it. Not the drugs, but
the old low-rent playground in the north park, which, while certainly not
as
fancy as the new playgrounds they've got in the south park these days,
provided lots of fun for a wee toddler. There was a low wall which he
enjoyed learning to walk on, an old fashioned slide, a couple of crude
dinosaurs, and the turtle. I spent about a year with him as a stay-at-home
dad, and remember meeting lots of other (friendly) parents and their
toddlers in Clark Park. Don't remember running into any whores, but maybe I
was just too naive to recognize them.
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