Wondering

[were_gopher]

What is wrong with this world that makes me even slightly nervous that I've let a 12YO and a 9YO go to the park at the end of our road on their own for an hour. Ok the 12YO isn't as savy as most kids his age but it's still something I don't think our parents would have thought twice about in the 60s or 70s.

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[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

That was one of the things I was most concerned about. the kids have been going to the corner shop, where they have both been known since infancy, on their own ever since we moved to this house in 2003 (before it would have meant crossing a busy road which at that point had no crossing) and the park is across that same busy road. They are now old enough to trust to cross the recently installed (about 6 years ago) zebra and cynical enough to not believe the car coming is going to stop until it does (which quite often it does not).

If you look at the link you can see how far it is to the corner shop. The play area is in the middle of the park and the school is to the left of it. we used to live in Hilton Place.

http://bit.ly/cqZz3H