Kids on street

Rachie_B

Coupon-mad wrote: »

My DD is 11 and she and other neighbours' kids meet outside to chat and play on the pavement. They are not allowed around the corner out of sight unless they pre-arrange with parents a visit to the corner shop etc. In this group the youngest girl is 9 and that's about how old DD was when she was first allowed out the front unsupervised.

is your 11 yr old yr 6 or 7 ?

my son will be 11 in may and going to secondary school : yr 7 in sept

he is asking if he will be allowed to go into town / the cinema etc with his friends ,i suppose as they are making their own way to / from "big school" you have to let them go a bit

i have told him yes with a mobile phone and if i drop him off / pick him up

the thought of "letting them go" lol is scary but it has to be done doesnt it

Scarlett1

I dont think there is any area that is safe enough to not have anything happen to a child, my daughter is 6 and there is no way I would let her play outside, cars use the road to come down and turn around when they have been to tesco express and recently one of my neighbours had their brick wall knocked down by a van reversing up the kerb, goodness knows what would have happened if a child had been riding their bike there *shudders*

Curious_George_2

I have nowhere safe for my DD (nearly 7yo) to play out, and honestly i dont think i would let her do it unsupervised anyway,

its not that i dont trust her... its more that i dont trust anyone else.
you can call me over protective all you like, but its not my daughters picture your going to see splashed all over the news for the wrong reasons.

tiff

It's actually a fact that most abuse is done by someone you know or in the family, rather than a stranger snatching them on the street. I'm not saying we should let them all loose but we should bear that fact in mind when we decide what is safe or is not. There's obviously road safety to consider too.

folkestonelisa

Its nice to know that im not the only one that worries about my 6 yr old playing outside.

We live in a little estate with about 60 houses on it, 3 roads are dead ends but we still get boy racers round here. Mind you they do live here.

I worry about my son and hes nearly 15:rotfl:

Hubby reckons that he will let her out when shes 30:rotfl:

shazrobo

my sons (twins) were only allowed out of the garden last year aged 11. they turned 12 this month, and it is only on rare occasions when they are allowed out on their own. saying that i'm over protective for a reason, both boys have a learning disability, and have absolutly no road sense whatsoever, despite been shown loads of times.
i guess as previously said it depends on the maturity of the child concerned, but i would not let any child under 10 play out alone unsupervised.

rubytuesday

My son was about five, quiet street and his friend was a year or two older.

Bagpuss1973

I do not have children but I cannot imagine allowing the play outside on their on at 4 years old! It's not the 1940's you know when everyone was around and looking out for everyone else. I would only let them play "on the street" so to speak if I was there with them.

They have plenty of time later on for independance bit but no way at 4.

Depending on their mental maturity I would thought around 8 would be when I would be thinking about it.

Bagpussx

Plus on the news at this very minute the chavs who goaded their toddlers to fight!!! How sick is that.

sticher

I started letting my younger two (7 and 8 at the time) play out on the street last summer. My road is fairly quiet but some cars speed down now and again, so they were told they could not cross the road and if they did they would not be allowed out again.

I do let them cross the road now, but they don't reeally go out that often. If I lived on a quieter/safer road I would have let them go out sooner. I think traffic is a far greater danger than anything else.

Oldest has only ever played 'out' once, lol. He usually just goes to a friends, pictures, etc, not staying on the streets.

Rachie_B

Bagpuss1973 wrote: »

I do not have children but I cannot imagine allowing the play outside on their on at 4 years old! It's not the 1940's you know when everyone was around and looking out for everyone else. I would only let them play "on the street" so to speak if I was there with them.

They have plenty of time later on for independance bit but no way at 4.

Depending on their mental maturity I would thought around 8 would be when I would be thinking about it.

Bagpussx

Plus on the news at this very minute the chavs who goaded their toddlers to fight!!! How sick is that.

It really is like that here !

RE: that story about the children encouraged to fight OMG i couldnt believe what i was hearing ! :mad: