4. Bubble Living
This phenomenon means exactly what it says.
I believe that my family may have been living with a false sense of security on base. My kids rode their bikes to the convenience store, walked to school or their friend’s houses.
I was completely comfortable with them walking at night even.
I’m not sure that I would have allowed them to do those things when they were younger, if we had lived off base.
The first month after we moved, they both got on this hyper-vigilant safety kick. My daughter said “We need to get a guard dog in case there is an intruder”, to which my son replied “Let’s get a Taser gun just in case.”
I kept thinking, ‘why can’t we just lock the door?’ I had NEVER considered just how much their perception of safety was wrapped around having military police guarding our gates.
