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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could you start by meeting her halfway? Are there other children who walk, or who might also walk if she walked? Could she ride her bike?

To the PP at 14:53, when I was in elementary school, before cable TV, every kid walked, starting in kindergarten. Every kid. If you had said to the parents that an 8-year-old is not old enough to walk 10 blocks on her own, their jaws would have dropped in astonishment.[/quote]

When I was in elementary school, we all walked too (1980s).  And many of us were latch-key kids.  I lived at 10 blocks from my elementary, but, I wasn't walking to or from school alone at age 8, and I wasn't expected to carry a key and let myself in yet.  We walked in groups and stayed at the neighbors'.  If my eight year old wasn't comfortable walking, I wouldn't force it.  But it would be worth seeing whether she can buddy up with another group of kids for at least part of the walk.  When I was growing up, the older elementary school kids got money for walking the younger ones.[/quote]

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