DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD BE SENTING EIGHT YEAR OLD TO CO,OP WITH £20 Note CROSS A BUSY ROAD IN THE DARK.

[flowers114]

Hi All
A Question for you Do you think A 8 years old should go to a co.op with a £20 note cross a busy road in the dark.

flowers114/dear, i WOULD NOT send an 8year old out in the dark to the shops with any money, hope thats answered your question

ks
No this not dear.
Because this is first time been on this sight.
May be dear got feed up.
But I AM FLOWERS 114.
I am new person.

actually it gave me a dodgy laptop rather than a dodgy finger!

welcome to mumsnet, flowers.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH
nothercules [SMILE]

you still haven't told us why you asked the question flowers? the answers pretty obvious, if your that concerned about kids in your area shouldn't you be contacting the authorities instead of asking us?

eve2005
A very good question.
This a Question put too Neigbour From.

Thank you pointing this out.

I can't see myself ever letting my children out to play on their own let alone go to the shop across a busy road. My DD is 7, when or how do you let them grow up???

I dont think this is a reason to inform social services.

eve2005
And don,t think good thread and also for other mum have their say about what they say.

Hey Flowers sorry for having a laugh (it's what I do, and I'm extra hormonal and tired and cranky today) are you from England originally? No offence intended

welcome to the site, expect to see fastasleep making an arse out of herself, quite regularly.

I'd let my 8 yo go in the daylight, but not in the dark. I have asked him to in fact, but he isn't confident enough yet! (Roads have pelicans though, or are quiet).

They go to the corner shop for Grandma, and have done since they were 4, but that's just the end of her street, so no chance of getting lost!

I caught the bus to and from school at 8, never with a 20 pound note though, that would have been spent on sweets etc in about 30 seconds!

my 8 year old can go with his borhters. To the park but not in the dark and not alone. I don't allow my 12 year old to go out in the dark alone.

you trust an 8 year old with a £20?

Ds1 is almost eight (in a few weeks) and crosses our small reasonably quiet residential road on his own, but never a busy main road, never in the dark and certainly never with £20! I'd never see the change.

Hello, Flowers.

No, I don't think an 8-year-old should go to the co-op with £20 in the dark across a busy road.

(Guys, play nicely please).

Yes, I'd trust my 8 yo with a £20 note. He definitely wouldn't spend it on anything I'd not asked him to. And he'd keep it in a purse and not lose it. I can't see the problem with the £20 note tbh.

all my kids would lose it. genuinley.

depends ont he 8 year old surely

Yes, my children have done this at 8. But not after dark, and only in a village where everyone knows everyone.

I work with teenagers, and a lot of them have surprisingly little common sense, and are highly susceptible to peer pressure. But many 8-10 yr-olds are a lot more serious/sensible, and therefore IMO this age is a good age to learn to run errands like this (though not in the dark); when they are more likely to listen to and heed parental guidelines and rules.

this is a wind up..it so is.
its somebody trying to get a fight going like the dear thread the other day.don't get sucked in!

It is the dark and the crossing the buisy road that is the qworst bit sujrely?

as Hunker siad/ PLay fairly. Dont post if you have nothing constructive to say!