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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, just wanted opinions.  I have a first grader and third grader.  I live in a nice suburban neighborhood and my DCs bus stop is right down the street on the corner.  It's very close.  Yet all the parents (who live about the same distance as me) take their kids to the bus stop and wait with them until pick-up.  Then these parents meet their kids at the bus stop after school.  I'm not against this by any means.  I realize the world is a scary place... and it's good to drop off and pick up the young kids, esp. Kindergartners.  But at what age do you draw the line? There are parents that pick up their 5th and 6th graders (even if they live right across the street or a few doors down).

I remember walking to school by myself in first grade and when I switched schools, I walked to the bus stop by myself... in second grade.  I guess I'm asking because I have an 18 month old and it's hard to get to the bus stop because she naps around the time the bus comes.  I've told my kids before to just walk home if I'm not at the bus stop, but well-meaning parents drive or walk my kids to my house and look at me with concern because I wasn't waiting for my kids.  I've told them that it's okay for my kids to walk home... but they don't seem to get it.  What would you do?[/quote]

I would be very thankful to the parents and try to think of something I could do in return.[/quote]

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