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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm well above 40 and I'm all for giving kids some independence. But 6? That's still a little kid. [b]Just because they *can* do something doesn't mean that they are *ready* to do something.[/b] If your kinder trips and skins his knee on the walk to the bus stop. if a strange dog scares him, if a big kid steals his lunch...his confidence in handling situations all by himself could be shaken forever. That may sound dramatic, but what seems like a minor thing to an adult can seem very scary to a 50 pound kid. I've volunteered in kinder/first grade classes and I met a lot of super bright and funny little kids (my own kids were pretty capable at that age and they were tall/big for their age too), but none of them were ready to fend for themselves just yet. And I never met a parent who expected them to...[/quote] If you're well above 40, then when you were six, almost all six-year-olds were ready to do it. What has changed?[/quote]
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