1 hour 10 minutes total daily walk to school

[Itsneversimpleisit]

Is it a lot?

Twenty minutes there in the morning, twenty minutes home.
Twenty minutes there in the afternoon, twenty minutes walk back

With a 5 year old

Is it a lot or average?

Sounds totally fine to me, that's about what ours.

Get a bike. 5 minutes. Done.
Yes, the amount you are walking is fine and I doubt very much it takes you 20 minutes by yourself.

Our walk to school is an hour and a half each way, so 3 hours round trip, in the pushchair.
I have lunch at parents' house which is a 5 minute walk from the school.
Hoping to move back to the area next month, so then it'll take about 15-20 minutes each way.
But I do enjoy getting my steps in and think of it as good exercise :)
xx

Our school run is a 25 min walk when it’s just me and my toddler in her pram, more like 35/40 mins with my almost 5 year old as we often walk with school friends, and stop to look at every plant/bug/speck on the floor 🤦🏽‍♀️. It’s a good way of getting them to exercise without noticing it.

He was exhausted by the walk for the first few weeks so we would bus to school, and walk back, so that he wasn’t tired when he got to school, but gradually built up by walking to the next bus stop until we had cracked it.

Despite walking nearly 5 miles a day, I haven’t noticed any significant weight loss, but I’m definitely stronger/better stamina than before

@Natsku In the UK because we do not have to deal with extreme weather very often, therefore the roads/pavements can become quite treacherous very quickly. Personally, I wouldn't take a young child out, especially when they get to school and half the class has not come in including the teacher. It's just how it is in the UK.

Lol... seriously? My daughter is 5 and walks 40 mins each way.

In that case its totally fine - it would be too much if your 5 year old was doing all that walking, especially the last one.

or maybe get them a scooter and leave it at school?

Depends on what you eat. You can walk 20 mikes a day, but if you gorge it won't do naught.
Losing weight is much more about what you put in your mouth than exercise

That sounds perfectly normal and reasonable, although not much fun when it's really wet. Mine ended up doing that on their own by Y6 (as loads of kids were).

Enjoy a leisurely walk and opportunity to talk easily with your child and also see if your child naturally explores little details along the way and try to go with their curiosity. Do this when you've got the time to comfortably do so. When you don't have the time, look at biking or (dare I say it) scooting.
I work on the premise that, no-one in their right mind is going to take issue with a 5, 6 or 7-year old (or usually, even older - up to secondary age) riding on the pavement and, in my experience, as long as you give pedestrians priority and teach your child to do the same whilst riding respectfully, people don't usually don't mind parents riding on the pavement with their child.
I've never met anyone who thinks it's a good idea to let young children ride on the road, nor who think that encouraging young kids to ride is ever anything other than a great thing. For me, it follows that, encouraging kids to ride on the pavement is the only workable solution in this car-centred culture we're in atm. If your child can't yet ride, get them a balance bike - if you haven't experienced them before, they are an excellent way for children to learn to ride and to learn to balance on two wheels.
Scooters are massively underrated as well imho. I've scooted with my kids to and from school hundreds of times. It's as quick as running but uses not much more energy than walking. Just watch out for gaps between paving slabs, if you've got solid wheels (ie. not air-filled tyres) - it's too easy to get your front wheel momentarily stuck between two slabs which can easily leave you with grazed knees (and dignity). Also, I found it took a while for me to not feel mildly ridiculous riding an adult scooter. But if you're someone who doesn't worry too much what others think of you then it's a great way to get around. It helps that those electric scooter schemes are gradually starting to normalise scooting for adults.

That's not an hour and 10 mins btw

It takes me 20 mins to travel the 3 miles through town to get my son to school in the car. The first 28 miles takes around 20 mins. I regularly see children overtake me walking whilst I'm stuck in traffic. For those wondering he goes to a special school hence the long journey time.
So I travel for 40 mins there, 40 mins back and then 40 mins there 40 mins back and do around 120 miles a day. Cost me over £500 in petrol that get reimbursed

I'd say its fine if you are used to walking. If you are completely sedentary then it will come as a real shock.

The government guidelines are 2 miles walking distance up to year 3.
Up to 3 miles Yr 4 to year 6.
Year 7 onwards is up to 75 minutes to get to school by whatever means necessary.
Each of the above is One Way only.
You might get fitter, especially if you don't dawdle when you have your child with you.

Seems quite a short walk. I don't understand the question.

Perfectly normal walk to school I would say. Ours is half that but that is by merit of where we live in relation to school. Loads of kids walk to school here and many do take dogs on the walk too.

"Future you" will thank you for the fitness boost! You'll soon get used to it, though be careful about walking next to very busy or congested roads. That can be harsh on the lungs.

Really good for you both. Pretty much always walked to school when I was a child.... probably similar length of time. Just make sure you take something for him to eat when he comes out of school!
I would love to be able to walk my children to school but sadly not close or safe enough!
Yes good for maintaining/loosing weight and natural exercise during the day like this is so good for your health.....

I'm surprised (but shouldnt be!) at people saying scoffing a 40 min walk is "a short walk". If you're "going for a walk" then 40 min isn't particularly far but if its snippets of walking within your day, then no I wouldn't consider it especially short. Particularly if you had a job to do within that as well.
Eg it's probably about 2 miles, if I look up a holiday cottage and thry say its a short walk to the shop/pub, I'd be a bit miffed if it was 2 miles away!

How many miles per day do you think this is? (For me) wondering about fitness

An adult generally briskly walks at 20min = 1 mile. A 5 year old? I'd guesstimate 30-40min = 1mile.

My 5ypo can do a mile at the same speed as me 15/20mins when they're on a scooter or bike, walking adds only 5mins total.

Ours is 1.7 miles and with my 5 yr old we do it in 40 mins. I checked as the school did some challenge to walk for certain number of kilometres over a month and my elder daughter when at this school said "I'm not doing that!!" And I pointed out she WOULD do that cos it was less than her walks to school that month anyway, lol.

So 3-4 miles per day?