I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LET YOUR 9 YR OLD RIDE THE NYC SUBWAY ALONE...ARE YOU NUTS? EVERY PEDOFILE HAS WATCHED THIS VIEDO.......EXPERIMENT OR NOT, YOUR CHILD IS NOT AN EXPERIMENT BUT A GIFT FROM GOD WHO DESERVES A MOM WHO WATCHES OUT FOR HIM AT ALL TIMES...ESPECIALLY IN NEW YORK CITY OR ANYWHERE!

This is great. Finally a kid you can get around town by himself. I still have to drive my 16 year old to school, because something may happen to him..I do not think kids could survive any majors issues with the way we raise them now days. I walked for miles to school and back.

Well, I believe you will take a lot of heat for this act of allowing your child to be self-sufficient. We are raising a nation of WIMPs, because parents are afraid to let their little angel do anything. No one lets their child do anything nor be held responsible for anything these days. Bottom line is that you did a good thing. Keep up the good work.
Semper Fidelis.

I grew up in San Francisco that has a wonderful transit system just like NYC, and I, younger than this boy, transported myself home from school each day. My father would drop me off at school (appx. 10 miles away) almost an hour before class started because he had to commute to work. I kept myself entertained by reading or playing until other students showed up. After school, there was no one to pick me up from school. My parents both worked and we couldn't afford to hire a babysitter, nanny or driver. Forty years later, I am still here and so happy that I learned this type of independence at an early age. I have never had to depend on anyone and I instill this on my own four children and they are now 21 to 30 years old. Even while vacationing in other places foreign and domestic, I have no problem finding ways to transport myself sometimes with language barriers. I think today's youth are much too spoiled and parents too paranoid about the "what if's). As a society, we need to be vigilant, to ensure that people are safe, not only kids but adults too. If you see something suspicious - report it. If you see someone doing harm to person or property - act on it. It amazes me how so many people do not want to get involved.

Re: Pink104104
Society needs to wake up...I should specify..AMERICAN society....
Paranoia will only give the power to fear... what life is that ...Let your kids get around and see the world...starting young is an amazing way to educate them so they are not just sitting at home, on a computer complaining about how other people are doing it wrong.. THE AMERICAN soccer mom way!!!!!!! It really irks me to hear the finger pointers opening their mouths...keep em shut and just point ...please!!!!

Who cares???? Seriously.

Good job! That's what parenting is all about. Teaching your child how to leave the nest. Lets have more independent thinking parents like Lenore so we can have at least a few confident people in the next generation.