Teaching your kid being street smart is only a band aid or cope as the younglings say these days.

Because the issue is:

- your street smartness is an outdated smartness

- there are multiple different types of assholes waiting to victimize someone that you don't know about

When the police, court, positive socioeconomic factors work only then do you for sure minimize the risk of your child being victimized.

The internet has open the floodgates to be a piece of shit and made it hard to do something about it.

Because if you live in the wild west it's a matter of when not if.

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tennysont 2 days ago | parent [-]

FYI “cope” is closer to “delusion used to help you cope with reality” rather than “superficial fix”

Also, I think that some strategies, such as “comfort asking a parent for help navigating a situation” are timeless defenses against strategies like blackmail. There are probably some street smarts that change and some that stay the same.

	▲	0dayz a day ago \| parent [-]
		Well yes, street smart is both. It's a temporary solution based on the delusion that you can't work on a systemic level to reduce criminal or thuggish behavior. Ultimately I do think some form of self defense is good to know, but you can't expect it to be effective than situational.