Nervous about dd playing out in woods

[wisecamel]

So I'm sat here worrying because she's out with a friend and has gone to play in the local woods - well not really foresty woods, more sort of copicey woods near the estate, but still...

She's 10 and her friend's pretty savvy and has a mobile, she has to be back by 4pm, but she can't tell the time so I've asked her friend to let her know.

Anyway, the woods are literally 2 mins walk away and right next to houses and no roads to cross, and I am sitting here being a nervous wreck thinking she's not got the sense she was born with. AIBU to be this worried? Also...need the company until 4pm when she should be back in one piece!

Yey all round, for dd and her friend.

I was very bad at telling the time on a 'proper' watch for a long time too OP I still don't wear a watch. I wouldn't worry too much x

You can get talking wristwatches. They show the time but you can also press a button on them and it speaks the time.

Might be worth getting one for her
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Get her a digital watch - I didn't learn to tell the time on an analogue clock until I was 16.

If I glance at my watch now I still get mixed up, 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock look the same, it's only because I know it is morning or mid afternoon that I get them right.

I know how to tell the time, but I still have to go through the process.

If she wants to start weating her watch just get her to tell people the battery has gone and she is just wearing it as jewelry.