Insuffient information. My answer would be different if the distance was 100 yards than if it was 2 miles. (I suppose if it was that far, you and Lucy wouldn't have been walking every day, though.) What sort of neighbourhood is it?
A reasonably independent 11 year old ought to be reasonably safewalking a short distance to school on her own if it's a pleasant neighbourhood. But if she's never been allowed to walk in with her friends before this, then perhaps she has been over-protected and isn't yet equipped to do so. The options offerec seem to be the extremes. I'd feel much happier is she had one or two friends that she could walk in with.
In the late 1950s, from the age of eight or so I used to walk to school with other children but no adult over a distance of about half a mile through a housing estate. There was very little traffic on the estate then.
Apologies for the essay that follows, I've thought a lot about risk perception since becoming a parent, indeed in having come through a very high risk pregnancy
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There must be plenty of people going for the car option who would be saying that they do it because its safer when in fact they are doing it because its just more convenient.
I was lucky and was brought up in the country in a house with a big back garden on a street with virtual no cars, near a wood. My mum+dad hardly saw me most of the time, and look I'm still here, I havn't been raped or kidnapped or anything!
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A reasonably independent 11 year old ought to be reasonably safewalking a short distance to school on her own if it's a pleasant neighbourhood. But if she's never been allowed to walk in with her friends before this, then perhaps she has been over-protected and isn't yet equipped to do so. The options offerec seem to be the extremes. I'd feel much happier is she had one or two friends that she could walk in with.
In the late 1950s, from the age of eight or so I used to walk to school with other children but no adult over a distance of about half a mile through a housing estate. There was very little traffic on the estate then.
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There must be plenty of people going for the car option who would be saying that they do it because its safer when in fact they are doing it because its just more convenient.
I was lucky and was brought up in the country in a house with a big back garden on a street with virtual no cars, near a wood. My mum+dad hardly saw me most of the time, and look I'm still here, I havn't been raped or kidnapped or anything!
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