Kids on street

Carmina_Piranha_3

it depends where you live - in some areas people might all look out for each other. you mention the 40s but i know that in the 70s and 80s the people living in our street all knew each other and looked out for other people's children.

i suppose if i knew everyone in my street i might be more inclined to let my son out, but as has been mentioned he doesn't want to join in with the sort of kids living in the alleyways opposite our house, and it's only pensioners in our street.

there are decent children but they live a few streets away.

this is not me being snobby, it's his decision. we arrange play times with his schoolfriends a few streets away. if they lived closer then perhaps he'd have been playing out before age 9, not sure though.

my son also has the road sense of a goldfish.

some people live in quiet cul de sacs though, we live in a busy crossroads.

gravitytolls

8, and we live in rural Norfolk, and then only within view of th house.

madhouseof4

I will NOT be letting my children play out the front unsupervised. Call me overprotective all you want, but my kids are MY responsibility and I do not have much time for just sitting on the front door step and watching them play (they are almost 6 and almost 3). I prefer to keep them in the back garden where I know where they are at all times.

There are other families in my cul de sac (off another cul de sac) that allow their children to play out, but it does upset me to see a neighbour over the way having her 4 year old watching her 1 year old :eek:

JillD_2

My son is 4, we live in a quiet culdesac of 4 houses facing a massive field and there is no way on this earth I would let him out unless I was out too. He is in a world of his own half the time and whilst he understands what "dont go off the driveway" means ( the 4 houses share a drive) or "watch out for cars" or "dont go in the road" means, he doesnt remember to do what I ask. He just wanders about randonmly. No sense at all. I can;t even let him wander round the car when we are getting shopping into it in the supermarket car park, he juswt anders off kicing stones and watching his feet not the traffic.

Definitely better over protective if you ask me . There is plenty of time over the next few years to let them go out on thier own