This mom knows parenting
She let her 9-year-old son find his own way home on the subway because he “had been begging for me to please leave him somewhere, anywhere, and let him try to figure out how to get home on his own.”
She realized that statistically, the streets of NY are actually safe, and that if he asked for help chances are pretty good the person he approached would not think “Gee, I was about to catch my train home, but now I think I’ll abduct this adorable child instead.”