To make my 4yo DD walk to school?

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Need some perspective on whether I'm asking too much if DD.

School is a 15 minute walk away, she scoots most days, sometimes walks. It's an easy walk no hills, good paths for scootering.

She would rather we drive as her friends all drive. I hate to drive, parking is horrific and it stresses me out.

2 days a week when I work we drive.

This last two days have been horrific with her having massive melt downs about not wanting to walk/scoot as a result we have been the last to school

I tried to leave early today but the same happened. I got annoyed with her really angry. But now feeling massively guilty.

Perhaps I'm expecting too much of her and she is tiered???

Any advice??? Or am I being UR??

YANBU. You know she can physically do it so I would persist with walking on the days when you don't have to drive for work. I would be surprised if she's getting excessively tired from just a 15 minute walk, but in any case her stamina will get better and better if she keeps it up (and as she gets older, obviously). I would also suggest making sure she understands the routine, as it's just possible it's not so much the walking that upsets her, as the not being quite sure whether you are going to be walking or not on a given day.

My children have been walking that distance since age 2.
Both of them always kept up pace with me.

My daughter (now 7) does a 1km walk with me every morning to her school club, (repeated on the way home)

My sister's child on the other hand never used to walk to school, and constantly had 'pains' in her legs when asked to walk.

Walking is good for children, YANBU and your child needs to do as they are told. Keep up the good work and ignoring the moaning

my 3 year old walks everywhere (or rather runs everywhere). It's good for kids to walk at their own pace. It takes him ages as he has to chat, play act and comments on everything.

NU at all, just 2 small ideas...
Maybe her shoes hurt? maybe kids are making fun of her ?

NU at all, just 2 thoughts tho: maybe her shoes hurt ? maybe someone has made fun of her at school ?

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When my DS was in reception and having a hissy fit about scooting (he got much better as the year went on), breaking the journey up into sections definitely helped (can you see the dog mess bin? Look, there it is, yay, we made it, next stop the bench). And if he was really complaining about being tired, he'd stand on his scooter and I'd pull it along, only to the next waypoint and then he'd scoot again. Lots of jollying along needed.

So update...

Today we left 10 minutes earlier than normal...different child and different mummy. She seemed to actually enjoy it and when I got 'my legs hurt', I was able to say let's slow down for a bit instead of screaming 'we are late!!!!' and we talked about all the fun things she was going to do today (easily done at Christams time).

I actually think she DOES get tiered as she is very active (gymnastics, ballet and swimming). But will persist with walking because I need the exercise

Thanks for advice and encouragement!

My 4 year old walks this distance every day, to and from. Tbh wouldn't occur to me it was too much.

Brilliant Op ....I'm a different woman also if we leave that tiny bit earlier