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In reply to the discussion: I'm Afraid My Neighbors Will Call Cops if My Kids Walk Alone [View all]Igel
(35,320 posts)15. In '65 I started 1st grade.
The radius for bus pickup was 1 mile. I lived just outside of it, but in a corner of the neighborhood.
So no bus.
I think most parents would be wrecks these days, sending their 1st grader on a one-mile walk each way. And yet, it was safe. (We're bad at evaluating risk.)
I'm currently freaked that my son, first year at college, is biking everywhere. Too many cars, too many car doors. And yet he's probably safe.
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I grew up in a small town. When I got my bike in jr. high I was just about anywhere in town.
Thomas Hurt
Sep 2022
#2
What my sister & I got by with in a relatively small town when growing up is light years away from
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#9
I grew up in Millburn, N.J. I lived across the street from the Papermill Playhouse.
3Hotdogs
Sep 2022
#18
The only thing I would say is this. I was 7 and my sister was 5 we walked to school in a
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#19