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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bags are way too heavy and will lead to back problems. The US doesn’t care about health enough. Carrying a back pack that is too heavy isn’t coddling. Driving your kid to school is. [/quote]

This is something that occurred to me in the thread about strollers for 5 yr olds.

The people complaining that "5 yr olds are too old for a stroller" or "we're coddling kids by carrying their backpacks" are the same people who drive their kids everywhere. Of course they don't carry their kids' backpacks, their kids aren't carrying them either except for the distance from the drop-off lane to their classroom. And the mom who sometimes lets her 5 yr old ride in a stroller on the way home from the grocery store is getting flack from people who don't walk to the grocery store in the first place and therefore don't actually have any concept of whether it's reasonable to expect a 5 yr old to walk the mile or so there and back after her dance class.

Maybe we aren't coddling children too much. [u]Maybe we are coddling adults too much by letting them drive around in their SUVs everywhere, judging everyone they see through their tinted windows[/u].[/quote]

****CHEERS*****  :thumbup:

We live 0.5 miles from my sons elementary school. He has to cross a very busy two-lane road with an intersection where cars regularly speed and I- a grown adult- refuse to walk across unless there are no cars because multiple times I have been in the crosswalk and someone tries to turn or a car stops to let me walk across and another car honks and tries to go around them and then 3 additional side streets.

No crossing guards at any of these intersections. I will absolutely walk him. I will absolutely carry his backpack, which is likely 1/3 or more of his weight until it becomes less than 10% of his weight [i]as suggested by physicians[/i]. He still gets ready in the morning by himself, puts his shoes away, empties his backpack in the afternoon, puts his dishes away, and cleans up his toys every night.

My job is safety. If safety is coddling then so be it. [/quote]

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