Would you allow a 6 year old to go out alone?

No, its the dog that worries me. I have an 11 year old. Shes been walking to and from school alone from the age of 7. But going out with a dog is a no. Ours is a small breed who could be killed very easily by a large breed. She does not have the strength or skill to protect him. So, no dog walking for her.

No

Because if a teen is vulnerable how much moreso a child???? Goodness me. Despair for humanity.

So does that meann that teenagers shouldn't be allowed out either because one went missing? Can't see the connection to this post

A definite no!

Definitely not, no. My children wouldn’t have been out on their own at 6 without a dog, with a dog it’s even worse.

Absolutely not. i'm 44, and i wasn't allowed to walk the dog alone until i was 10.. purely because a child is not strong enough to withstand the strength of a dog should they choose to pull/run after something.

You'll end up with a lost dog and an injured child, or both.

Is this a joke?

Of course not fucks sake

NO, especially not with a dog putting them at even more risk. There is a convicted paedophile doors away from us that we only know about because we knew a family member of theirs. I also grew up next door to a young girl who went missing in her teens who has never been found. This makes me very cautious and I would not put a 6 year old in danger by allowing them to walk on their own.

No! Are you mad???

Yes but I live in Denmark and kids get the metro to school at 8 🤷‍♀️

We are the 4th house up from a park, on a road with a turning into "halfway house" my 8 yr old is smart AF and her road safety is top notch, I trust her completely. She has never been allowed out on her own or down to the park on her own. Other people are the problem.

Absolutely no chance. I don’t allow my 11 year old to take our small dog out by herself as she would be useless if something happened like another dog attacked.

I allowed my then 8 year old to walk to the end of our street with their 8 year old friend and their dog while I watched from the window but that was years ago and as a boomer I was by definition a neglectful and poor parent. They also walked to school by themselves from that age but the school was on the same street as our house and it is a cul de sac

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I am talking about playing out in the street unsupervised which lots of people seem to allow there very young children to do. I don’t consider this a to be normal at all

Not with a dog as they have to be in charge of it, it could cause an accident. But yes with a friend or to the shop if it was near

No!

No

No, I would never have let my son go out by himself with just a dog at aged 6

When I was a kid, being out in the neighbourhood alone at age 6 was not unusual (in Singapore). These days the attitude is very different, even secondary age children are not independent. However Japan has always emphasised that children starting primary school (age 6) make their own way to school. There are TV shows in Japan where preschoolers are sent on errands around the neighbourhood to build their character and independence. I rather like that society is so safe for these kids though sending toddlers out alone is far too scary for me.

This is funny, I grew up in various places, mix of working and middle class areas (various … all the same!) and am GenX so bulletproof! I remember at 4 years old being told to eat all sorts of garden worms/slugs/mushrooms etc by kids in various gardens and the woods out front, I didn’t because I’m not inclined to comply, but these things can kill a child. We also used to go on long walks, a bit older, maybe 8-9, walk for miles, home for lunch and when the street lamps go on, we’d walk into the army training areas … very safe 😵‍💫 unless you happened upon the red flags to say don’t enter … but as kids we didn’t know where they were! Also spent time shimmying over waste pipes over swampy pits that my parents didn’t know existed, played in farmers fields when the combine was out, or when the farmer had his gun and was on a mission to get rid of the pesky kids. Unfortunately a few kids got molested by weirdo blokes in multiple places I lived . My DM was out with our dog one day and a dog mauled her to try to get at our tea cup yorkie, which she hauled up by its harness lead to safety under her coat, she said she was relieved it wasn’t me or the dog would be dead (boomer parents to GenX kids lol 😵🙄😱), we had more than one convicted paedophile, drug dealer, school age child with a baby …. The list goes on … these kids were brought up on walking 1-2 miles to / from school , told each other to look out for the flasher at the park, or XYZ dad who sells / gives away ‘free’ drugs at the gates … so no, a 6 year old isn’t safe

This was my thoughts too.

Our children were never out alone at 6, however that was more to do with where we live, there’s no pavements on the country road outside our house and the speed limit is 60 so it wasn’t safe. I did used to drop them in the village to play with friends at the park but there was always a parent keeping an eye on them. I used to walk to school when I was around 6 and met my pals on the way but the village literally consisted of a couple of streets. The only time we weren’t allowed out on our own was when Jimmy Saville was at his house and this was long before the news broke on him.

I'm always being told on here that I give my kids too much freedom and I'm very relaxed about stuff like this. But it's a no from me. I'd let a 6 year old play out the front of the house on their own but not go out of sight and not with a dog.

So are all kids from most other places in the world emotionally stunted because they walked themselves to school. Or thinking of that anyone over 40 in the UK?