Why do you drive to the bus stop?

[Anonymous]

FWIW, I did not drive my child to the bus stop. I could see the bus stop from my house. However, I have read several excellent reasons why moms do drive to bus stop. Give it a rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I drive to the bus stop, which is 1.5 blocks away, for several reasons: I may still be in my pj's, it's cold and I don't want to freeze while waiting, I have my toddler with me.

Why does your child not walk to the bus stop by herself/himself? I am asking sincerely.

He is 8 and I can't see the bus stop from my home. I like to see him actually get on the bus.

I'm in all away across the country for work tonight yet I can still hear your blades churning load & clear.

Omg this made my day lol!!!

Me too! Awesome

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to drive my kids to the bus stop so that I could then haul ass to work.

Mind your own business.

This.

It's actually why I ended up passing on the bus and drove kid to school.
It was 2 miles closer to my beltway entrance and I could drop off about 10 min. earlier than bus would come, so when dashing off to work 15 min. (less late) is a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So does nobody allow their kids to just walk to the bus stop & wait for the bus without them these days?

Unless maybe the weather was REALLY bad, a kid had a major disability, or getting to the bus stop required crossing an extremely busy road without a crossing guard or crosswalk/walk signal --the latter of which was very rare as bus routes were designed so that kids could easily walk to their stops --nobody's parents accompanied them to the bus stop or waited with them until the bus came past kindergarten (if that) when I was in school in the 80s & 90s.

In fact, it would have been TOTALLY EMBARRASSING for parents to accompany you to school or the bus stop, when I was in school in the 70s and 80s.

Exactly.

When did it become so common for parents to refuse to cut --or even loosen-- the umbilical cord until their kids are old enough to vote & go to war?

It's the morning social-gossip hour for many I am guessing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to drive my kids to the bus stop so that I could then haul ass to work.

Mind your own business.

This.

It's actually why I ended up passing on the bus and drove kid to school.
It was 2 miles closer to my beltway entrance and I could drop off about 10 min. earlier than bus would come, so when dashing off to work 15 min. (less late) is a big deal.

Nothing wrong with that. Why don't more parents do what you're doing? If you're gonna drive to the bus stop, why not just drop em off at school?

[Anonymous]

We don't have a bus stop but we live 3 (long) blocks from school and the entrance is clear on the other side of the building. I drive DC a lot.

It sometimes takes 10 minutes to walk DC to school because of the three traffic light crosswalks and because he walks slower than I do. If I drive it takes less than 5 to get in the car, pull out, and drive over where I can park close to the entrance. Then I get back in my car and go to work and don't have to back track on foot. It sometimes can save 15 minutes, which is significant in the morning when you have to be somewhere. I see the bus stop thing to be a similar conundrum for working parents on a tight schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't have a bus stop but we live 3 (long) blocks from school and the entrance is clear on the other side of the building. I drive DC a lot.

It sometimes takes 10 minutes to walk DC to school because of the three traffic light crosswalks and because he walks slower than I do. If I drive it takes less than 5 to get in the car, pull out, and drive over where I can park close to the entrance. Then I get back in my car and go to work and don't have to back track on foot. It sometimes can save 15 minutes, which is significant in the morning when you have to be somewhere. I see the bus stop thing to be a similar conundrum for working parents on a tight schedule.

Why can't DC walk to school by himself, or ride his bike? I am asking sincerely.

[Anonymous]

Why can't DC walk to school by himself, or ride his bike? I am asking sincerely.

I am not the poster to whom you are replying--but she did mention traffic lights. My kids walked--but it was a purely residential area with no traffic lights and one crosswalk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In our case, the landscaping workers neighbors hired would talk to the kids. When my daughter finished her walk alone, since we lived at the bottom of the street, the idea strange men would make conversation with a middle-schooler was simply creepy.

Hired hands trying to be friendly by making casual conversation with kids on a public street in broad daylight??!! Why, I never! We must alert the church elders at once!!!

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/PLyVmwikWv2DuPzMp4-oc9d9pzkoWp1tha4ivNux9wpvd5loRoTLUYrSQn7jO_aEbED1c4pNN2pmZRyGb10C5F8i_LJqb7xJBQQx=s0-d-e1-ft#http://media0.giphy.com/media/r0Dv6T9JvbYdO/200_s.gif

This was not casual conversation. My daughter said he was incredibly creepy.

"Why are YOU out of school so early?" "Where are the other kids?" etc.

As my male friend said "Decent men know you do not engage underage girls you don't know in conversation unless she is obviously in distress. If nothing else, there is a self-preservation instinct. A middle-aged man who does this has nothing but bad intentions".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I drive to the bus stop, which is 1.5 blocks away, for several reasons: I may still be in my pj's, it's cold and I don't want to freeze while waiting, I have my toddler with me.

Why does your child not walk to the bus stop by herself/himself? I am asking sincerely.

Why do you care what she and her child do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We drive to the bus stop. It's about four blocks away, but all uphill and there aren't sidewalks. And I drive straight to my parking garage afterward without going back home.

It's cold out. I'd rather sit in a warm car than stand at a bus stop when it's 22 degrees.

Wow - lots of lazy and soft parents commenting on this thread - as if waiting for the bus when it is 22 degrees out is going to kill someone or even ruin their morning and the stranger danger comments from the parents who drive their kids and wait because they won't let their kids out of their site are laughable - your children are several thousand times more likely to be hurt or killed in the drive to the bus stop than they are to be harmed by a stranger.

And we wonder why we are a lazy people with children who can't care for themselves.

+1 million

Loosen the apron strings people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a mom who drives to the bus stop every day. Doesn't matter what weather it is, she drives there every day. How far away from the bus stop can you possibly live that you need to drive there? There are sooooo many bus stops in the nearby area that I cant see why anyone needs to drive to any bus stop. I'm thinking she is using somebody else's address so her kid can go to this school because her assigned school isn't a good one or something.

the horror, OP

Go find a job.

[Anonymous]

The bus comes right to our door.

one of the perks of living in the outer burbs in one of the few neighborhoods around . . .