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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok thank you! I also thought it wasn't a big deal but everyone else thinks I'm nuts and it's too big a commitment. One of my friends is paying a neighbor for something similar. I needed a sanity check.[/quote]

Is she paying a neighbor to walk a 4th grader or is she paying a neighbor to walk a Kinder or 1st grader -- that's a big difference.

I would not be surprised if this doesn't even last the year because of the child's age. They are new to the school and the mom is understandably nervous about traffic and just her kid going to a new school on his own. I bet the backup winds up being "kid walks to school on his own" by January because he is old enough to do that and it won't all be new by then.

And then guess what -- next year he'll be in 5th grade and I bet if you wanted to you could send your older kid to walk to school with the neighbor on their own and then you could just walk with your younger child. And you'll know the neighbor kid really well from having walked with him the previous year and there may be days where you are sick or need help and he can help walk your younger kid as well and you'll feel comfortable with it because this family is now reliably friends at that point. And you'll be grateful for the help and backup.

This is how it's supposed to work![/quote]

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