I walked home 2 blocks from kindergarten. I wasn't supposed to, but I was a bit headstrong."...provided the child is 9 years old."
In Charlotte we walked to school in 1st grade, and they let us ride bikes to school in 3rd. In 5th grade we were armed crossing guards.
Okay, crossing guards.
THIS is why we home schooled and went from a few acres around us to thousands when my eldest was around ten. With a stick, pocketknife and a dog the boys would be gone all day on adventures.Well, finally....but it's sad it took a law to let kids be kids.
I traipsed the woods and rode a bike all over my county growing up. Rode my bike up and down all the roads collecting glass bottles for the deposit. Rode my bike three or four miles to the fields in the mornings during hay season. Sat for hours upon hours by myself in a farmers truck at the gas station on the corner selling watermelons in the summer. Walked a hunnert miles on and around Gardner Webb campus. My friends and I built a fort about a half mile into the woods (it was actually very impressive) and we camped pretty much all summer. We would go ten days to two weeks without sleeping indoors.
Dodged enough trouble, got caught in my fair share, too during all that.
Kids need stuff like that...
I think they were yellow and/or white and I think the badge said Safety Officer. I forget how we used to fold them into a neat package with the badge on top.
It was a lot like this...
The color orange hadn't been invented yet.
We didn't get snow days up in NY unless it was well over a foot of snow. We walked, but as kids, we loved snow.I walked to school IN THE SNOW. It was up hill some places.
Exactly like that, except ours were white back in the '60's. The color orange hadn't been invented yet.
I remember when the buses put on tire chains to get the kids to school.I walked to school IN THE SNOW. It was up hill some places.
I remember when the buses put on tire chains to get the kids to school.