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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This might be specific to where you live. In DC, tons of kids, starting in middle school, ride public buses and Metro to school, often making a transfer or walking a mile or so. Think kids on Capitol Hill commuting to upper NW. They navigate around to get to their after school activities on their own. My kids walk a mile or more to visit friends or go to a specific store, or they might ride bikes or take a bus.

They have so much more freedom than I did as a middle schooler growing up in suburbia.

We drive so little that it's going to be a challenge to get hours behind the wheel to get a license.[/quote]

I think this is right.  Doesn't even have to be DC.  We live in Arlington and most kids here by middle school (6th grade for us) are trending way more independent.  Walking home from school, walking and biking to friends houses, meeting up to do things independently, taking a bus to get places (which is free for them).

I think this is something to think about very intentionally as a parent and there are parents doing developmentally normal letting the strings go gradually.

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Yep I do think there was a switch. One of the few good things parenting wise that came out of the pandemic. [/quote]

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