So she walks her sister to playdates. And I fret. I wonder when I stop fretting? It's 0.3 miles, according to Google, and the return trip took 15 minutes.
I'm not sure we ever stop fretting, not really. My eldest is 14 and a bit. And I know for a fact my mum still frets about me and I'm 40...
In a weird sort of synchronicity, the latest tweet to my friends timeline goes like this (and it is a public account so I feel ok about reproducing it here):
"Smallest girl (aged 10) has just gone up to the local rec, all of 2 mins walk away, with her friends. Total Mum anxiety overload. "
I'm not 100% comfortable with Kate walking Holly home on the days when I work in the afternoons. It's not so much the walking home, it's the being in the house on their own for 20 / 30 mins before I get home myself. It's a financial decision mostly, as I'm not prepared to pay £20 a day for them to go to an after school club & Kate is now 10. I was walking both of my brothers home at lunchtimes at this age & making lunch for the 3 of us before my mum got in from work (& walking us to & from school in the mornings & afternoons, but all children did it in those days)
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Date: 2012-09-03 10:23 am (UTC)Repeated exposure/evidence that always comes back ok?
What does she do now that you don't fret over but did once?
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Date: 2012-09-03 10:54 am (UTC)In a weird sort of synchronicity, the latest tweet to my friends timeline goes like this (and it is a public account so I feel ok about reproducing it here):
"Smallest girl (aged 10) has just gone up to the local rec, all of 2 mins walk away, with her friends. Total Mum anxiety overload. "
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Date: 2012-09-03 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-04 05:21 pm (UTC)