To make the kids walk 3miles to school?

No.

I’ve always been a walker. I was a healthy weight until after having my third child and I dipped into really bad eating habits. If I didn’t walk also, I’m sure I would have been much bigger.

Great. So you were a very late starter to walking for exercise then

But losing the weight was down to walking and rectifying my poor diet.

And if I hadn’t been walking I would have been much bigger.

Well, anything is better than nothing.

I walk six. I walk for around two hours a day in two intervals. I’m going somewhere though and I’m with my three kids for half of it. I think if I was more purposeful in my walking, and was alone for it, I could definitely do it much more quickly.

I don’t think everyone should walk six miles. I do think these teenagers could walk it. I think everyone should factor walking into their daily lives though and avoid using the car unless absolutely necessary.

you see this kind of post.

You conveniently neglect to mention that your obesity was due to poor diet. On here it’s all about lack of exercise as being the “problem in society”

Anyway, I’ll leave you to it

Walking a few hours a day, do you mean miles? I think it’s not realistic for people to walk hours every day. (It takes me around 12 mins to walk a mile, so a minimum of walking 10 miles daily (20-25k steps) isn’t feasible or realistic.

Has the school acknowledged there will be issues with children getting in on time? What is Plan B for days of heavy rain (we’ve had a number of those recently).

You can see my posts. On the second thread I changed my name to bonjournomounjourno or something.

You can see I stopped posting in around June 3rd when I got my positive pregnancy test. I obviously stopped taking it immediately.

I’m not depressed or despondent.

I’m positive. I’m supporting the idea that most people can and should walk a few hours a day.

The reason the weight dropped off me so quickly is because once I’d addressed my poor eating habits, I was already walking 6 miles a day.

Also, thanks for the condolences on my miscarriage.

I’d just like to note an unusual phenomenon.

I started reading this thread thinking you were being unreasonable, but having read it all, I’ve changed my mind.

…I’m not saying this is a first, but it doesn’t happen every day.

I might start another thread to discuss how often that happens to other people.

Had to walk 3 miles to school and back 40 years ago though tbf was because i spent my bus money on cigs and sweets. It ls only a month, not mid winter, it won’t kill them and they may even enjoy it.

you’re on this thread despondent and depressed about the obesity of others, when you were, went on the jabs, pregnant, come off 🤷‍♀️

And just to add, I have always walked the kids to school and back. My problem was eating lots of rubbish for late night snacking. I’ve managed to curb that over the summer and I’m working really hard to maintain that.

These are all bad habits that need to be addressed.

Culturally, we are normalising unhealthy eating and sedentary lifestyles.

We need to change this mindset. And who better to comment on the that someone who struggled with their weight themselves?

I’m not 😀

I had a BMI of 30 in April, I took Mounjaro for one month, then fell pregnant, I had a miscarriage in July, and I’ve been able to maintain my weight through the whole summer.
My BMI is now 26.

I have struggled with my weight. I don’t deny that. I don’t want my children to have the same problems and for laziness to become their norm. I want better health for my children.

What’s wrong with that?

My grandmothers couldn’t ride bikes either, wasn’t the done thing back then apparently.

Fgs @Thedevilhasfinallycaughtupwithhim i was on the Monjaru weight loss injections support threads with you. You are obese. Get off your high horse

Where did he keep his horse whilst he was at school @BeAzureRaven ?

Cycle or scoot? And you give them a lift in bad weather/make sure they keep a change of trousers at school.

What are other local parents doing? Our primary school has a bike bus where children and parents can cycle together as a group. Could that work?

I used to walk 1.5 miles to school, friends 1.8. I think 2 is max in my eyes. I wouldn’t make my kids walk 3 with heavy bags.

i would park my car the other side of the roadworks for the duration and we just walked to the car a little each time

Why do you live that far from there school?
or if you like why don’t they go to school near you’re home?

🤔

Adults train for weeks to do a half day hike???
My 7 year old did an unplanned 8k walk this summer (we didn't realise how long the walk was until we were half way round, too late to turn back then) with no food or water, and swarms of mosquitoes biting us. Didn't even suffer a blister.

No it doesn't. Local authorities have as statutory duty to provide free transport for primary children travelling over 2 miles and for secondary children travelling over 3 miles

I'd drive them if it was pouring with rain in the morning as it's not nice to be in wet clothes all day. Otherwise the exercise will do them good. If it wasn't raining I'd tell them to walk in the morning. DH can decide if he drives them or they walk in the afternoon.

Sounds like fun. That might be a novel solution for OP!

Another option - picnic breakfast and thermos flasks to eat in the car and leave very early in the morning when there's little traffic so you can deposit the children and get home again before rush hour. Would require discipline to go to bed early enough to make getting up at 5am or so feasible for a month.

If them walking is likely to be a longer term thing than just for the roadworks look at bikes with some kind of legal pedal assist fitted to help with the hills. (Check if you're supposed to be 14 to use a bike like that).

Years ago kids walked to school. I did. But attitudes have changed.
If they are 12 and 13 cycling is the perfect answer. As the road is closed to traffic it is quite safe. It is only for a month anyhow. Actually there is nothing wrong with cycling now and then even when the road opens. Good exercise.