Would you let your 7 year old go to the corner shop alone?
To give perspective the shop is on a different street so they would have to cross a (quiet) road, then go down another side street and through an alleyway beside a pub to get to the shop, which is on the side of a busy street.
My daughter is 7 and I don't think she is ready to be out and about alone but one of her friends (also 7) has been doing it for some time.
Recently my daughter was invited for a play date to their house. Forcmy own piece of mind I mentioned to the Mum that her daughter had told us she goes to the shop alone but I wouldn't want my daughter to do it (we are on friendly terms so I felt I could be honest about my concerns)
Instead of responding with a 'Sure thats fine', or 'OK no problem' she point blank denied that she would let her daughter do such a thing, and said her daughter had been fibbing about it. I would have believed this if I didn't know otherwise. A close friend has told me that she has witnessed this happening on more than one occasion.
I've always found being lied to really difficult, I realise the Mum may have just felt uncomfortable and denied it, but I've since found out she then contacted another friend to say she thought I was being overprotective and unreasonable.
Do you think I am? I now feel I can't trust them to respect my wishes and i don't want my daughter to go. What would you do?