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phoenix1981 · 18/11/2008 21:49

sorry i havn't been around for a long time the site has changed so much i dont reconised it but any how could i have your opinion please

my mum text me the other day asking me to send my 9yr old daughter who is 10 this dec to walk around to her house and collect her mobile ( not too happy about the mobile at her age thing but.....)anyway my mum lives in chargo ave and i am in cobham rise ( sorry to give names of roads but not sure how else to explain the distance, i called my mum and asked if she was going to be in at a perticuler time she said she might be out so i said ill come around as soon as i finished calling she said just send my daughter around she will be ok.. ok maybe i am being a over protective mum but i dont think my daughter is old enough to walk around there on her own altho she knows how to cross a road she still dosn't have enough road sence as i still have to moan at her for walking straight into the road so am i being over protective and stick to my guns and walk her around there after all the world isn't a safe place any more i know she needs to learn on her own but how do u know when the right time is or should i let her walk around on her own and worry like crazy??? sorry if it dosn't make any sence

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skramble · 18/11/2008 23:17

Not much sense, I wouldn't give so many details TBH, but if you are not happy about her walking that distance alone then you are right to walk with her.

It is difficult making decisions like this but the decision is yours. My DD 9yrs walks from MIL to my house in dark but early evening and has to phone as soon as she is in. Later on I would walk with her. But them we live in a small village where the neds hanging out are more likely to say hello to her and help if anything else happened.

thumbwitch · 18/11/2008 23:20

makes enough sense - do what YOU think is right, not what your ma says. Although I am a bit that at 9 your DD has no road sense!

SlartyBartFast · 18/11/2008 23:22

i wouldnt like it, not the road crossing, didnt allow it til i had to, once 11 and at secondary school

kikid · 18/11/2008 23:30

More to do with it being light i think, not in the dark iyswim

dd walked hm from the age of 9. If she's sensible, knows what to do etc. She has to learn, so teach her & then let her practice.

phoenix1981 · 19/11/2008 19:50

she knows how to cross the road but its getting her to use her brain and cross the road sensibly instead of just forgetting to look and walk in to it

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