Would your Reception child run about in the road?

[TheDuchessOfNorksBride]

If they weren't being chased/chasing or running after a ball etc (and not special needs). So you're walking normally along a pavement, would they just start running up the road instead?

My ds would'nt no because i have taught him roads are dangerous.

I bloody hope not! Ds knows better, I think.

No he wouldn't although might run across a side road if he saw one of his friends ahead etc so does need watching. But wouldn't just run up the road, and he's quite a young and impulsive 4 yo.

Why?

He wouldn't when he was walking with me or DH, but I wouldn't trust him on his own, and he is 6 He goes into his own world, and I don't think he'd even realise he was on the road.

No. my 3 year old doesn't either.

Neither of my two - 7 and 3 would have done that from aged about 2 1/2.

No, my ds 4.5 knows that cars will squish him if he does that. Roads are for cars and pavements for people

Why ?

hmmmmm....DS at 4 still had a sketchy idea of the damage a car can do to a person and I had to keep a STRONG hand on him at roadsides. He told me at this age that he would put his hand out and stop the cars using the Force

Of course I had explained v strongly the reasons we don't go in the road but it just took a while for him to accept his mortality and hence the problem with doing it!

So no, in answer to the OP he didn't run about in the road because I made blummin sure he couldn't, but I was only that strong about it because he started once or twice to dart into the road

Why? I'm nosy!

oh and in DS' defence he was only JUST 4 when he started reception! A couple of weeks before he started he was a 3 yr old running about! I think it can depend on the age and stage of the child - many 3 year olds are still unreliable near roads

Why?

Why... because a boy did this at lunchtime pick-up and I was rather surprised because he didn't seem to have any idea that there was a difference between the road and the pavement.

I just assume that my 4 & 6yo's wouldn't do it but the earlier incident made me wonder if I'm expecting too much of them. But I don't think I am (now I've thought about it). I wouldn't let them cross roads alone or anything but I no longer feel the need to hold their hands all the time.

My DD1 is in Reception and is crap with roads. We live in a very rural area with no pavements and very little traffic so she is sketchy about road safety despite my best efforts - she could easily do what you describe TDOFB . My friend took her into the middle of town once and was worried by her un-road-savvyness compared to her DC who are used to traffic.

Children are different, some would, some wouldn't. And a child who behaves perfectly sensibly at 4 may not do so at 6 (or at 46, thinking of some of my adult friends ).

Ah yes Bramshott - I've been mulling over my practices with other peoples children! Because I don't hold their hands when I take them home from school (I think the ones I do bring home would be put-out at being 'babied' actually). Something for me to be aware of though.

What really struck me about the boy earlier is that he just treated the road like it was the playground. He was oblivious. I'd be a quivering nervous wreck if my DCs did that (and I don't have enough hands to go round so would have to lasso them altogether or something)!

When my DS was 3 I had newborn in pram, I had to literally uncurl his fingers from the pram to get through narrow spaces. He would not let go.

If I have a lot of chidren (more than 2) to shepherd I make them hold hands in twos but the tend to meander somewhat.

I thought mine had a great idea of road safety until dd pulled her hand out of mine and ran on to the road (aged 3). We had explained at length what would happen if a car hit her. By coincidence there was a dead squirrel on the road where she ran out and we pointed it out to her and said it would never be going home etc. She got the point, is angelic around roads now and feels sorry for the squirrel. I know that this may not have been the best idea, but I was terrified and as small children do not really understand the concept of death, I did not know how else to finally get it across to her.

no, absolutely never. 100% reliable.

No pavement outside our house so we have to walk in the road for a few hundred yards to reach pavement. DC are well trained to scatter if a car is coming.
Sometimes DS (almost 4) goes in the road with a cheeky look, he knows he shouldn't, and he is well terrified of cars, he just likes to test the rules.

Ahhh the power of the Force.

Some boys never grow out of this you know. My DH still thinks its how all the dirty crockery gets from the sink into the dishwasher.

No. Unless she has had squash/colourings. Then it is a whole unknown quantity

Ds wouldn't no. He does occasionally walk off the kerb, sort of half in, half out of the road, but generally does this to wind me up and stops as soon as I spot him.

However, Dd2 did used to run into the road, and didn't give a toss about traffic etc. I think she might have been slightly younger than reception age though, but only just.

She stopped doing it when a car nearly hit her.

That sounded like I let her carry on until she nearly got hit