You should maybe link the videos of the show about Feral Children on National Geographic. YouTube has it. Pretty interesting .. A girl perched on a log doesn't do the same justice in a photo as watching her barreling your way and barking like dog .. Kind of made me jump!
i'm from new mexico, thats pretty much how we were raised. dad-"get out of the house and don't come back until after dark, you aint wasting my a/c just sitting on your asses!!" but what the hell i think we turned out allright