To think it riduculous that parents in my area allow their kids to do this

[Anenome]

I live in the outskirts of a small city...it's a very nice area, lot's of nice people and nice houses. There are 3 schools within less than a mile's radius of my home.

Every morning I walk DD to her school which is 5 mins walk away...my 2 year old DD comes too, either walking or in a buggy.

We are in constant danger from kids as young as 3 and 4 who ride scooters and bikes to the nearby CofE school (we don't go there).

These kids are hurtling ahead of their Mum's or Dads on very narrow paths, the parents are almost never close enough to stop them as they crash towards me or my kids...the parents never apologise or even attempt to slow the kids down...and it is ME who has to dodge THEM!

The road is a very busy main one...often jammed with traffic and to me it looks like an accident waiting to happen.

Should I speak to the CofE school about it? Maybe suggest they mention to parents about safety for pedestrians? Or AIBU?

letsblowthistacostand I hope I don't ever meet you on a narrow path! And no...I would never ride a scooter to school...as I said, in my area it's not safe.

haaaaaaaaa at shineoncrazydiamond that's what i was thinking, push the little kids off if its that bad haaaa

It isn't perfect that they aren;t in control of their children however, the fact that they are not in a car driving the half mile to school makes me feel reluctant to critisise.

I HAVE THE BEST IDEA... I HAVE PURCHASED A LARGE ADULT SIZED MICRO SCOOTER AND GO ALONGSIDE MY 4 KIDS.ACUTE EMBARASSMENT FROM 11 YEAR OLD ADDS TO THE FUN.IF ANY PEOPLE ARE IN THE WAY AND I NEED TO GET PAST I SIMPLY SHOUT MAKE WAAAAY..... MARVELOUS FUN,YOU SHOULD TRY IT

Oh I hate the bikes and scooters on the school run. Many a time I've stood with my hands over my eyes as a kid scoots straight into a side road on the way to school (the very side road that driving parents 'land' in) because the number of near misses are astounding... The kids don't even stop to look and what are the parents doing? Gas bagging....

When you're trying to push a bloody heavy wheelchair up the hill to the school and some silly sod on a bike kicks out sideways at the wheelchair sending the front (and DS2's legs) into a fence....

Walking to school is fabulous, so much better than driving. I don't really have an objection to the scooters and bikes in principle, if the kids were being watched. I hate to say it though but they're not on our school run and it makes them a menace.

Scattermummy...but the people on the path are not in your way....you are in theirs. At the risk of seeming boring...paths are for pedestrians...not small families traveling at high speed on scooters.
Fun for you...not for the child who may be knocked over.

personally I hate children on the school run, annoying, whingy things.

Oh lololol at this thread!

When I saw you were the op anomone, I was looking forward to seeing for myself the cares and corncerns of someone so Special and Extraordinary.

Lo and behold you just seem to be mithering about litle kids riding their scooters to school... So far so Very Very Pedestrian

Fallingwithstyle

Not you again do you usually follow people about?

Only if they're really special anenome

Buckle your seat belt then...I'm sticking around and will continue to be special for the forseeble future!

It's the modern world no consideration! If the adults concerned had been properly brought up this would'nt be an issue. Rude, selfish and up themselves

You ignor them Anenome

oh no not middle class

Oh wait...this thread isn't about road safety is it? It's about the OP - who some self-styled Mumsnet royalty have issues with.

I agree with you Anemone. The parents should make sure their children don't inconvenience other people.

Wanders off to find nicer thread...

CommanderCool

Quick! The middle classes are coming! Lock up your scooters! Run! Hide! They're pushing Bugaboo Frogs

Aaagh!

I don't understand the snide tone of some of these posts - OP is absolutely right to be concerned about the likelihood of small children whizzing down narrow pavements on scooters and crashing into her and her DCs. It doesn't make her paranoid or over-protective. Just sensible.

And those parents who blithely let their DCs scoot along without telling them to be considerate of others, never mind their own safety, aren't making a heroic stand against the lunacy of health & safety nuts who wrap their children up in cotton wool - they're endangering their own children and other people's.

Scooters belong in parks and gardens, not on pavements.

So, YANBU, OP.

Thanks ttalloo I also think that Butterbur is right and this thread has turned quite nasty...I think I'll hide it so nobody else wanders on innocently makinga decent point....tanks though.

My lot scoot on school run / nursery run / to park and playground. DS1 is 4.5 and DTs are 2.5. I wont let twins scoot into town as don't quite trust them with the main roads, esp as there are two of them so harder for me to restrain them! They only have to cross a small road in the car park to get to school. If we walk the twins take forever, and I don't want to put them in a pushchair unless I really have to (or someone will be moaning about my double buggy blocking the pathway).

They do scoot a bit ahead of me, but they normally stop when I shout, and are usually good at swerving round people.

DS1 does go to the local CofE school...I did think this was the same as a Christian school though, btw...

Trouble is ttalloo, you often need to go on the pavement to get to the parks etc. And if the only other option is going in the road, then surely the pavement is the better option. We don't drive anywhere unless it is a "long" journey, so we do usually have a combination of scooters and bikes.

And they can't really scoot in the garden, as it is mainly grass, and not very big.

yabu as \i don't see the problem with scooters and bikes on a pavement in the school run, it is very rarely a problem. However I was shocked howmany people thought the Mayor's Thames Festival was an aproppriate place for their kids to have scooters. The Southbank was heaving with people and we saw lots of children with scooters, there was no place for them to ride them. There parents really showed no common sense bringing them at all.

When ds was little and haring off I used to call 'ds, MIND THE LADY' if he was heading towards anyone. Made the pedestrian realise he was there, made ds realise there was someone there, and signalled to the pedestrian that I did give a toss - most of them grinned while taking avoiding action.

my son is on of theses kid not in that area but i make sure he stops and pushes it near peoples or I RIDE IT :)

Isn't the whole point of scooters to ride them on the pavement?

My DS has one and I make him slow down when he approaches groups of people. So in that sense I do understand where you're coming from OP.

What I don't get is the 'nice area' or the CofE stuff. That's just plain weird

Oh yes i would mention it also to the parents in question. It really annoys me when parents allow the young children to go ahead of them dont they realise the dangers of the road or are they to busy gasbagging to other parents to watch their own properly.