Best way to protect your child?

geek84

Good Morning Folks

I hope you're well. My daughter recently started 6th form school, and she needs to catch 2 different buses in order to get to her new school. She has never caught a bus before, and with the dark and cold evenings coming soon, I am worried for her safety.

Is there anything that I can do in order to ensure she is ok? She already has a mobile phone which she can use any time to tell me if she needs any sort of help.

I am thinking of a personal safety alarm or something similar?

Thanks

DUTR

geek84 wrote: »

Good Morning Folks

I hope you're well. My daughter recently started 6th form school, and she needs to catch 2 different buses in order to get to her new school. She has never caught a bus before, and with the dark and cold evenings coming soon, I am worried for her safety.

Is there anything that I can do in order to ensure she is ok? She already has a mobile phone which she can use any time to tell me if she needs any sort of help.

I am thinking of a personal safety alarm or something similar?

Thanks

I'm not sure what you were doing when you were her age?
From an early age we walked and bus to school, I don't think the dangers were any less then, just that nowadays information gets around more quickly, what is she going to do when it's time to join the commerical world of working?

iammumtoone

What times does she have to get the bus? And what is the route like? Rural with hardly no body about or in town? Rough area or not?

Personally I think by giving her alarm you are giving the impression that she might need it (the last thing you want to do is worry her) when in reality if it is standard school times in a decent area she won't. Most likely she will not be the only young person on the bus coming back from the six form. She has a phone that should be enough.

If she has never been on a bus I think the best thing yo can do for her is to make her go on a couple of 'practice' runs of the route in the daylight so she is familiar with where to go/what to expect.

DUTR

iammumtoone wrote: »

What times does she have to get the bus? And what is the route like? Rural with hardly no body about or in town? Rough area or not?

Personally I think by giving her alarm you are giving the impression that she might need it (the last thing you want to do is worry her) when in reality if it is standard school times in a decent area she won't. Most likely she will not be the only young person on the bus coming back from the six form. She has a phone that should be enough.

If she has never been on a bus I think the best thing yo can do for her is to make her go on a couple of 'practice' runs of the route in the daylight so she is familiar with where to go/what to expect.

I would have thought that the phone would enhance the chances of becoming a target.

iammumtoone

DUTR wrote: »

I would have thought that the phone would enhance the chances of becoming a target.

Nearly everyone carries a phone. As long as she keeps it out of sight then she will be fine.

DUTR has raised a valid point OP. You should make your daughter aware not to be playing with her phone on the journey.

peachyprice

At 16 the best you can do for her is stop treating her like a little girl.

Has she said she feels unsafe? Has she asked for an alarm? Now is the time to let her make decisions for herself. In 2 years time she could be off to Uni in a totally strange town, she needs to start gaining independence in preparation for that now.

peachyprice

DUTR wrote: »

I would have thought that the phone would enhance the chances of becoming a target.

Everyone has phones these days, unless she is stupid enough to flash a brand new Iphone 8 around the top floor of the bus having a basic mobile will not make her a target.

DUTR

peachyprice wrote: »

At 16 the best you can do for her is stop treating her like a little girl.

Has she said she feels unsafe? Has she asked for an alarm? Now is the time to let her make decisions for herself. In 2 years time she could be off to Uni in a totally strange town, she needs to start gaining independence in preparation for that now.

This is the point I was making in the earlier reply, personally I just find it odd (as I read it ) the OP is over protecting the child which in itself is dertimental to them maturing to be streetwise and facing the real world .

DUTR

peachyprice wrote: »

Everyone has phones these days, unless she is stupid enough to flash a brand new Iphone 8 around the top floor of the bus having a basic mobile will not make her a target.

I agree, but what kid has a basic phone nowadays?

mrschaucer

A kid with sensible parents who refuse to pay out for the latest must have?

peachyprice

DUTR wrote: »

I agree, but what kid has a basic phone nowadays?

OP's probably