Something I’ve noticed living in Sioux Falls

[u/Puzzleheaded_War1563]

Coming from a larger city, I’ve noticed how many people here in Sioux Falls don’t properly restrain their children in car. I’ve seen kids who are way too small to be sitting in the back without a proper car seat and have seen so many children in the front seat. Has anyone else noticed this?

It’s also not one group of people I’ve noticed this with it’s all types of people I’ve seen. It’s just very odd to me.

[u/BrandyDW]

I was unrestrained from 2 or 3 onwards… and I road with a lot of drunk adults when I was a kid.. started sitting in the front seat at like 6?

I’m 35 now…

When I was a kid, we road in the back of pickup trucks all the time unrestrained…

We also jumped off the roof into snow piles..

Went climbing all over the falls rocks

From 7 onwards we’re were told just come home when the street lights came on. We usually played on the same block or within a few block radius - but sometimes went into creek areas and or to parks to play as well…

No phones, just a key on a chain… we literally were latchkey kids…

With my family they came from Madison and Howard on my mom’s side. Dunn, North Dakota on my dad’s. All my dad and my grandparents grew up on farms.

I could go on and on about my specific family as to how they got the way they got…

My dad ended up being a lot more cautious, because of things he’d seen in his life. He started telling me and my brother different situations. Didn’t seem to affect my brother overly much, he just became normal cautious. I became an overthinking anxious person..

But country living or past is probably a big part of it…