Would you let your 4th and Kindergardener walk to school w/out an adult

[Anonymous]

Yes, I would totally allow this. We're about 5 blocks from our school and I'd still allow it if there weren't one very very busy street to cross (no guard).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How hard it is to drive or walk them OP? Are you lazy?

This is hilarious! I love when this sort of thing happens!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How hard it is to drive or walk them OP? Are you lazy?

See and THIS comment right here is the epitome of this generation of crappy parents. I actually think the moms walking or driving their kids are lazy. They rather just do than teach. Teaching kids how to do for themselves is NOT lazy, it is a necessity. This generation of parents who hover and judge those that don't hover are ruining our kids. There are kids in 1st grade that can't tie shoes, can't cross a street, can't walk a block to a friends house, can't even make their own lunch or pack their schoolbag. Some can't even pick out their own damn clothes or make their bed. The parents rather just do it for them. Too lazy to take the team to teach them. "But they are reading at an 8th grade level" they say. So what!!! If you wait too long to teach life skills, they don't want to listen to you anymore. If you wait too long, you are enabling them to always depend on you. If you wait too long, they will feel inadequate and not able to handle themselves, second guess themselves, and will become anxious/depressed in their tween and teen years.

So PP, stop with what you think is this PC bullshit of calling out moms for letting their kids do things on their own. Saying they are lazy because YOU can't let go of the reigns and have it in your subconscious that being a good mom is doing everything for your kids all the time. And to be honest with you, Moms would be a lot less stressed, anxious, judgy and maybe even (gasp) a lot nicer to other moms if they could take this weight off their back. Win win for everyone.

PEACE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hell no, what is wrong with you?

Are you serious? What is wrong with you? No OP but how old were you when your mom let you walk to school or the bus stop without her? Do you realize kids in NYC take the subway to school without a parent starting in grade 3. They only issue parent cards for K-2nd students without older siblings.

My mom took me to school the very first day for bus pics. After that, I was walking home with 1-2 other kids starting at age 4 (when you used to start K) and shockingly I knew how to do it. AND no crossing guards.

The only reason YOUR kids can't do it is because you haven't taught them yet. But go ahead and keep coddling them while judging others.


OP - they could both handle walking 1.5 blocks to school with a crossing guard. They can definitely handle it together.

+1

Some DCUM folks are the prime example of overprotective, coddling, helicopter parents who would not dream of teaching their ES kids some important life skills, like e.g. crossing the street safely,m until they graduate from HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard it is to drive or walk them OP? Are you lazy?

See and THIS comment right here is the epitome of this generation of crappy parents. I actually think the moms walking or driving their kids are lazy. They rather just do than teach. Teaching kids how to do for themselves is NOT lazy, it is a necessity. This generation of parents who hover and judge those that don't hover are ruining our kids. There are kids in 1st grade that can't tie shoes, can't cross a street, can't walk a block to a friends house, can't even make their own lunch or pack their schoolbag. Some can't even pick out their own damn clothes or make their bed. The parents rather just do it for them. Too lazy to take the team to teach them. "But they are reading at an 8th grade level" they say. So what!!! If you wait too long to teach life skills, they don't want to listen to you anymore. If you wait too long, you are enabling them to always depend on you. If you wait too long, they will feel inadequate and not able to handle themselves, second guess themselves, and will become anxious/depressed in their tween and teen years.

So PP, stop with what you think is this PC bullshit of calling out moms for letting their kids do things on their own. Saying they are lazy because YOU can't let go of the reigns and have it in your subconscious that being a good mom is doing everything for your kids all the time. And to be honest with you, Moms would be a lot less stressed, anxious, judgy and maybe even (gasp) a lot nicer to other moms if they could take this weight off their back. Win win for everyone.

PEACE

THIS!

[Anonymous]

I also have a child that doesn't listen, easily distracted when she sees other friends and gets excited. She is 7 and still cannot cross the road safely which makes me very anxious. For that reason, I would not let her walk to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard it is to drive or walk them OP? Are you lazy?

See and THIS comment right here is the epitome of this generation of crappy parents. I actually think the moms walking or driving their kids are lazy. They rather just do than teach. Teaching kids how to do for themselves is NOT lazy, it is a necessity. This generation of parents who hover and judge those that don't hover are ruining our kids. There are kids in 1st grade that can't tie shoes, can't cross a street, can't walk a block to a friends house, can't even make their own lunch or pack their schoolbag. Some can't even pick out their own damn clothes or make their bed. The parents rather just do it for them. Too lazy to take the team to teach them. "But they are reading at an 8th grade level" they say. So what!!! If you wait too long to teach life skills, they don't want to listen to you anymore. If you wait too long, you are enabling them to always depend on you. If you wait too long, they will feel inadequate and not able to handle themselves, second guess themselves, and will become anxious/depressed in their tween and teen years.

So PP, stop with what you think is this PC bullshit of calling out moms for letting their kids do things on their own. Saying they are lazy because YOU can't let go of the reigns and have it in your subconscious that being a good mom is doing everything for your kids all the time. And to be honest with you, Moms would be a lot less stressed, anxious, judgy and maybe even (gasp) a lot nicer to other moms if they could take this weight off their back. Win win for everyone.

PEACE

Amen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard it is to drive or walk them OP? Are you lazy?

See and THIS comment right here is the epitome of this generation of crappy parents. I actually think the moms walking or driving their kids are lazy. They rather just do than teach. Teaching kids how to do for themselves is NOT lazy, it is a necessity. This generation of parents who hover and judge those that don't hover are ruining our kids. There are kids in 1st grade that can't tie shoes, can't cross a street, can't walk a block to a friends house, can't even make their own lunch or pack their schoolbag. Some can't even pick out their own damn clothes or make their bed. The parents rather just do it for them. Too lazy to take the team to teach them. "But they are reading at an 8th grade level" they say. So what!!! If you wait too long to teach life skills, they don't want to listen to you anymore. If you wait too long, you are enabling them to always depend on you. If you wait too long, they will feel inadequate and not able to handle themselves, second guess themselves, and will become anxious/depressed in their tween and teen years.

So PP, stop with what you think is this PC bullshit of calling out moms for letting their kids do things on their own. Saying they are lazy because YOU can't let go of the reigns and have it in your subconscious that being a good mom is doing everything for your kids all the time. And to be honest with you, Moms would be a lot less stressed, anxious, judgy and maybe even (gasp) a lot nicer to other moms if they could take this weight off their back. Win win for everyone.

PEACE

Agree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard it is to drive or walk them OP? Are you lazy?

See and THIS comment right here is the epitome of this generation of crappy parents. I actually think the moms walking or driving their kids are lazy. They rather just do than teach. Teaching kids how to do for themselves is NOT lazy, it is a necessity. This generation of parents who hover and judge those that don't hover are ruining our kids. There are kids in 1st grade that can't tie shoes, can't cross a street, can't walk a block to a friends house, can't even make their own lunch or pack their schoolbag. Some can't even pick out their own damn clothes or make their bed. The parents rather just do it for them. Too lazy to take the team to teach them. "But they are reading at an 8th grade level" they say. So what!!! If you wait too long to teach life skills, they don't want to listen to you anymore. If you wait too long, you are enabling them to always depend on you. If you wait too long, they will feel inadequate and not able to handle themselves, second guess themselves, and will become anxious/depressed in their tween and teen years.

So PP, stop with what you think is this PC bullshit of calling out moms for letting their kids do things on their own. Saying they are lazy because YOU can't let go of the reigns and have it in your subconscious that being a good mom is doing everything for your kids all the time. And to be honest with you, Moms would be a lot less stressed, anxious, judgy and maybe even (gasp) a lot nicer to other moms if they could take this weight off their back. Win win for everyone.

PEACE

Don't forget how incredibly LAZY it would be to DRIVE your child a block and a half. Emitome of American sloth.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was illegal. At what age are they allowed to get off the bus without an adult there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was illegal. At what age are they allowed to get off the bus without an adult there?

No minimum age. No federal law.

I know MCPS bus drivers looks for K parents and bring them back to school if they don't see one, but you can designate an older child/sibling to walk home with or tell the bus driver you are okay with them walking home alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard it is to drive or walk them OP? Are you lazy?

See and THIS comment right here is the epitome of this generation of crappy parents. I actually think the moms walking or driving their kids are lazy. They rather just do than teach. Teaching kids how to do for themselves is NOT lazy, it is a necessity. This generation of parents who hover and judge those that don't hover are ruining our kids. There are kids in 1st grade that can't tie shoes, can't cross a street, can't walk a block to a friends house, can't even make their own lunch or pack their schoolbag. Some can't even pick out their own damn clothes or make their bed. The parents rather just do it for them. Too lazy to take the team to teach them. "But they are reading at an 8th grade level" they say. So what!!! If you wait too long to teach life skills, they don't want to listen to you anymore. If you wait too long, you are enabling them to always depend on you. If you wait too long, they will feel inadequate and not able to handle themselves, second guess themselves, and will become anxious/depressed in their tween and teen years.

So PP, stop with what you think is this PC bullshit of calling out moms for letting their kids do things on their own. Saying they are lazy because YOU can't let go of the reigns and have it in your subconscious that being a good mom is doing everything for your kids all the time. And to be honest with you, Moms would be a lot less stressed, anxious, judgy and maybe even (gasp) a lot nicer to other moms if they could take this weight off their back. Win win for everyone.

PEACE

Don't forget how incredibly LAZY it would be to DRIVE your child a block and a half. Emitome of American sloth.

Well most of the moms at my child's bus stop drive 5-10 houses to the bus stop, and not just rainy weather. I kid you not! Kids walking home alone wrong but parents starting a car and 6 of them idling for 5-10min is not. And most just u-turn around and go right back to the houses.

[Anonymous]

The pickup line at my kids' public E.S. school is awful and people are always getting into fights about people pulling around, etc. It's insane and really aggravating on the rare occasion when I do need to pick my child up for something (like a doctor's appointment close in time after school) because it's like a 20-30 minute wait. I wish more people would let their kids walk.

I'm more on the fence about whether to let my 7 year old ride his bike the 2 miles to and from school. I worry mainly about the people speeding down residential streets to get to work, or because they are late driving their kids to school. A kid was hit a couple of months ago riding to school.

[Anonymous]

I hate that we have come to this point.

I can SEE the bus stop from my house, it is probably 200 yards away, max. 20 years ago, there would be no way I would need to go to the bus stop to get my kid. Now, I will need to go and get them from the bus stop until they are 30.

[Anonymous]

Absolutley let them do it- 1.5 blocks. YES.