People who walk to school

[purpleme12]

Those who walk to school with their children, how far away is the school from your house? How far away would you consider a school? And do they walk willingly?

School is about 800m. I live in London. So, I walk them to school, drop them off, hop on the bus and go to work.

10 mins with kid, can just about do it in 5 when running late and on my own.

20 mins with a hill finish. We mostly use scooters for the kids. Always walk rain or shine.

About a 25 min walk. Kids had no choice as I don't know to drive.

Approximately 3 minutes. DS2 (3yrs) has a tantrum every single bloody time, so it can take 15 minutes.

About 15 minutes. Willingly? Well, no choice was ever offered, no point finding out if they'd prefer to drive because it's not going to happen.

It’s about a 5 minute walk but it takes 10 minutes with child. Willing, just slow.

1 mile, Scoot every day.

About 20-25 min, we walk rain or shine, I then walk to the station to get to work

10 mins alone, 15-20 mins with sloooooooow DD

10 mins.

25 to 30 minutes there with dd aged 3. 9 minutes alone on way back. Often resort to pram when in a rush to get to work. Lots of stares as dd is a big kid for 3.

30 minutes, 1.3 miles. Oldest one scoots, youngest (Just two) is still in buggy. We walk about half the trips each week on average mainly due to the need to drive into after school activities some days and bad weather the rest. That’s about the max distance for me, I don’t think I’d want longer. Took him a while to build up to it and I was glad he could use a mix of walking and the buggy board in reception because he found it too far and was too slow to begin with. I’d have struggled without that option in the early days.

I spent 14 years walking my 3 to and from school, in sun, rain and snow. Those 25 minutes, twice a day were absolutely precious and valuable.

0.7 mile. Walk now but scooted from age 3 when they were at nursery next door. Car is too much faff, parking and narrow streets with lots of other parents.

0.8 miles, he generally scoots, 12-20 minutes. Mix of me/D.H./neighbour. If I’m heading straight to work, I’ll drive past school and ‘park and stride’ back from the work side direction, about 5-7 minutes walk.

It’s a 15 minute walk. He walks willingly as he has never been given a choice!

DC's junior was 30 minutes walk, though we more often cycled (10-15 minutes). We never gave them the option of doing anything else so they considered it normal.

When DD was in infants and DS in juniors she used to have do a 2.5 mile round trip on the days I picked them both up. Although we always cycled on these days, plenty of other parents in this situation did walk it.

10min for me, 15-20min with kids. Totally flat route.

Why are you asking?

About 400m so less than 5 mins I love it. Takes longer to drive and park even if it's raining!

200 meters. No problems.

Now it's 0.2miles. At one point we had a walk of just under 2 miles, took us 35 minutes, kids on scooters, me power walking the pushchair.

Nursery was 25 minutes, primary 10 minutes. Secondary was 7 miles 30 minutes walk and 8 minutes train.

We are 5 mins away normal pace - 10 mins away by 4 year old pace.
Always walk whatever weather (I have a pair of neighbours that drive the same distance every day!)

I would walk up to 25/30 mins if necessary but would be more lenient about taking the car in bad wind/rain if further away than we currently are.