To let Dd walk at 6.00am?

[Tartanwarrior]

My daughter is 17, and works as a dot.com shopper on Saturday and Sunday mornings. She's been doing this job since Nov, and I have driven her every time so far. It's light now at 6, it's about a 10- 15 minute walk, and can be done on a well lit road beside a fairly busy road. I so want a lie in, but I feel guilty/ worried etc. I'm a single parent, and she isn't close to driving yet. Am I unreasonable to make her walk?

FuckertyBoo

The streets aren’t more dangerous for a 9yo now than they were 20-30 years ago... Traffic fatalities are down for one.

Absolutely fine. In a years time she might well be off at uni and will have to walk tobwork/lectures etc whether or not it's dark.

Absolutely fine. In a years time she might well be off at uni and will have to walk tobwork/lectures etc whether or not it's dark.

Not at 6 am and probably not by herself anyway so completely irrelevant.

Great Dungeon so there are No Go areas now , we're getting more like America all the time.

If you read upthread our ds was mugged by youngsters for his phone in a pleasant MC leafy area. In the afternoon.

I do not write rubbish , if were rude I would say that you do. But I try to be polite.

I think a lot of people here are a little bit naive tbh. Getting your phone taken from you maybe isn’t such a big deal to ppeat’s son (and certainly didn’t seem to bother ppeat at all ). There are areas, away from your “MC leafy” ones, where people do not just take phones.

I wouldn’t mind people making naive / sheltered statements if they didn’t do it with such a patronising scoff while they did it.

I know it’s difficult for some people to accept that other areas are different to the ones they live in. But you don’t sound very clever when you go all “I did it and I’m fine. My son just learnt to stand up for himself”. You actually sound pretty silly and incredibly ignorant to me.

Great Dungeon so there are No Go areas now , we're getting more like America all the time.

There have always been some "no go" areas. It's not new and nothing to do with "becoming more like America".

If you read upthread our ds was mugged by youngsters for his phone in a pleasant MC leafy area. In the afternoon.

Not sure what your point is here. Are you saying that because you can be mugged in a pleasant leafy area that there is no difference in risk between some areas than others?!