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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Offer to make her a sandwich and help pack a suitcase. She wants to run away from her problems, from her fear. [/quote]

This sounds like a very bad idea to me.  She's not 13, she's 6![/quote]

Different poster, but I did the same thing when I was 6 or 7.  I even packed a suitcase and walked about a mile away in our neighborhood.  My mom said fine, didn't come after me and didn't make a big deal about it.  After a while, I walked back on my own and no one said a word.  Never tried it again.  She's doing it to get attention.  Don't "rise" to the occasion on this one and don't make a big deal about it.[/quote]

I was 8 and my brother was 4 (early 90s).  We tied the handle of our wagon to the pedal of my bike and we started down the street.  I think we got about 2 miles (1/5 of the way to Grandma's house where we were going to camp in the woods until we decided where we should go) when my brother got tired and hungry.  We forgot water and food.

Honestly, my mother listened, nodded her head a lot and didn't try to stop us.  If she had helped, we would have loaded the wagon faster, we would have been out of the house faster and if we had food, we would probably have gone farther.  As it was, we got back home with less than an hour before bedtime for my brother, and we had no desire to complain about eating quickly or taking a bath.  She didn't punish us at all, looking back now, I think she thought that wasting the whole Saturday and being tired and hungry for so long (8 years old and trying to pull a wagon that's tied to the pedal of your bike is grueling!) was enough to dissuade us from doing it again.[/quote]

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