Why do we feel we have to drive our kids to school when they live within a 5-10 walk? It really bugs me!!! Not only is it not good for them, think of the harmful effects on the environment? This morning as i drove my handicap daughter to school because I HAD too, I was floored by the 100 cars or more that were going to the school with only one child in the car. Isn’t childhood obesity on the rise? Isn’t there concern about polution and idling of cars as we pause to let our children out? Come on people THINK!!! it doesn’t hurt to let our children walk.
—disgusted mom
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
Well, the parents would have to untether their kids from their leashes first, and that would be unacceptable. Sarcasm and comment about kids on leashes aside, I agree 100% with this bitch. I can see it maybe for the first week. After that, some parents can just make it one less thing they have to in a day as the school is just a short walk away.
Also, have parents heard about this new thing that people are paid to drive some of their kids to school for them? I think they’re called school buses.
Come on, disgusted mom, THINK!
It is pouring rain out and flu season. That’s why.
Also…there are perverts afoot. Foot perverts.
You’ve clearly got issues if you can’t understand why parents would want to drive their children to school if it is an option. Just because the other kids aren’t handicapped to the point that they can’t function on their own like YOUR daughter shouldn’t take away from the fact that they are still children. Stop being so fucking selfish.
So what did these 100 parents say when you knocked on their window, asked to see their license, and confirmed their address to be within 5-10 minute walk of the school?
Don’t forget to quiz them about the traffic conditions and dicey crosswalks on the way.
I guess it’s finally time for me to be a troll. The point of this bitch is that all the kids being dropped off at school don’t need to be dropped off by the parents. The OP probably saw the traffic jam in the morning and thought to write this bitch as they get rather horrid. It seems as time has gone by that parents have replaced educating their kids about how to be safe and/or dry with simply keeping their precious little snowflakes away from anything that might possibly harm them in any way. This is why there are no merry-go-rounds in the city anymore, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg here.
Do some of those kids need to be driven? Absolutely, sometimes it’s too far to walk and the school bus isn’t that close either. As someone who always had to walk 5 minutes to go to the school bus, I might not understand how it’s done in the city, but I’m here and I’m alive and well. I would bet a good chunk of those kids could have taken a school bus and that a handful could have walked. If it’s raining, you take an umbrella, and kids get the flu being in close quarters for hours on end, not exclusively from being outside. And if parents are worried about lowlifes or foot fetishists, this is where education comes in. While it’s not 100%, it’s a lot less likely if your kid knows what to look for. Kids aren’t stupid, but they will be if you keep smothering them (putting them on leashes, etc…) and replacing common sense with “safety features”.
Yeah, there’s the whole idling thing too, but I think that was a secondary concern to the OP. And finally, if time permits, why not walk your kid to school instead?
My child is 5 years old and lives approximately 1.6km from school. I’d LOVE to walk him to school if I had the time. I have to drop him off at before school care, then drop my 18month old daughter off at daycare (about 2km away from the school), then drive myself 22km to work. As it is, I get to work about 10 min late everyday because I cannot drop either of my children off before 7:30am. You didn’t ask anyone about THEIR personal situation did you? No, you just assume that everyone has the option to walk their kids to school. Some of us don’t.
I agree with Miles , alot of parents (including me ) are affraid of the fact that people are trying to nab kids on a regular basis while they are walking to and from school. My daughter actually does walk to and from school everyday, but believe me if my work schedule allowed me the time to drive her I would and the last thing I would be worried about is the enviroment. My childrens safety trumps the enviroment.
Cliff Notes:
– Original Poster was inconvenienced this morning by traffic, but has handicapped daughter therefore is in a position to judge all other parents who were blessed with healthy, functional children.
The last time I sent my kid to school with a raincoat and an umbrella, the school called me asking me to come right down with a dry change of clothes.
I walk to school with my child. Everyday because I’m able to. A lot of parents have to drop their kids off on the way to work. Also, today was a shitty day to be walking to school. My kids school is “idle free” and most if not all, parents respect that. I’m assuming your child has a physical disability that prevents you from walking but just because able body children are getting drives doesn’t mean they’re going to be obese or that they’re lazy. All the parents I know who drive their kids, do it on their way to work and probably would love to be able to walk with the kids everyday just like you.
For those who are afraid of their kids being kidnapped going to and from school (which is extremely rare), they can be as easily kidnapped going to the mall, a store, a friends, or anywhere else. In fact walking to school is safer as there are many people (kids and adults) going to and from the same place.
They could take the bus, but they have to bring an umbrella for when the bus-driver kicks them off for endangering the other passengers.
I forgot, kids melt in the rain these days.
Statistically speaking, your kid has a much higher chance of being killed in a traffic accident than being kidnapped. The kids are safer on the sidewalks than in a car.
Yeah, traffic accidents caused by perverts in vans full of abducted kids lured by the promise of candy.
Free candy vans are totally legit, I saw a picture of one on the internet!
Actually, if you live and go to school on the peninsula, there are no buses, unless your child goes to a French school.
Jesus Fucking H. Christ…
I understand the idea of driving a disabled child, a child far from the school and bus routes, when the school is along the way of a parent’s route etc. but the ones who live a few minutes away and still get a drive?!!? Gimme a fuckin’ break! When we were kids we had to walk to school in rain, sleet, snow, blizzard (and if we had ’em back then… I’d add hurricanes!) and we wore those cheap fucking black rubber boots with the brick-colored soles (not what was “in” at the time) and plastic fucking raincoats (ponchos??)! The boots would get cold, crack and then leak causing our feet to get cold. The raincoats did the same fucking thing. It made us tougher. It built up our immunity. It made us able to better withstand all of the shitty Nova Scotia weather that we got. We didn’t get a lift from mommy or daddy and further expose the planet to crap like car exhaust. To those who do not live far from your kids’ school(s), make the little fuckers walk!!!!
It was probably uphill both ways and you only had salt sandwiches for lunch. Kids these days.
Thank you, Mr McNasty – you nailed it. I have two relative children who are driven to school everyday (ages 9 and 14) and it disgusts me to the point I can’t have a conversation about it in person without coming across as a cold bitch. They live a MAXIMUM ten minute walk from school and never get a drop of exercise at home. It’s one of the safest neighborhoods in HRM. Sure, there are pervs out there, but as pointed out, the chances are so slim of something ever happening. Parents who fear this on a daily basis must have ulcers! Times may have changed, but I enjoyed walking to school at 5 yrs old, up my street, through a neighbor’s yard to another street (over a KM to the school). EVERY kid in my neighborhood did it. I had wonderful parents who did worry at first, but knew in the end I had to learn, so let me go. Nothing ever happened, and I’d proudly do the same with my own.
Yeah. Kids are so fat nowadays.
My parents made me walk to school every day with all my books in a popeye schoolbag, and now i have scoleosis- I walk with my ass thrust out like a duck. luckily it’s pretty tight- like two cloves of garlic; Must have been all the walking i did.
like a duck… haha
You’re a bit of an asshole yourself lady. Not everyone can walk to school, and maybe these people are actually carpooling (dropping off their other kids/spouse elsewhere), and therefore saving money and the environment.
So chill. Walking is better of course, but not everyone can. Or wants to.
When I was just a lil tike………I had to walk to school……..every day……………twice a day……………….for 3 miles each way…………and ’cause where I lived from the school………….it was up-hill…….both ways!
Fuck, I always wished I lived at school…………and schooled at home………….so I could ride my bike……..and coast both ways.
I walked 3.8 km to school. I went up up some hills…. both ways!
It’s true.
Ohh yeah? When I was a kid, I used to walk barefoot 3.9 km to school in the blinding snow, uphill, and had to fight off grizzly bears along the way with my bare hands. Both ways.
Kids are getting lazier and parents are becoming more accommodating for this laziness. Remember that they’re all a bunch of poor innocent little darlings who need to be bubble wrapped, ohh and don’t forget those predators! I’m glad my parents didn’t feel the need to bubble wrap me, allowing me to make my own decisions and mistakes along the way.
no fucking wonder kids are lazy little fucks these days. momma or dadda can pop them in their car,drive a mile or so,and they are safe and sound, NOT. more vehicle accidents happen with 5 miles of home.and add to the fact that just about everyone is doing it, just compounds it moreso. when i was a kid, i walked almost 3 miles, 4 fucking times a day, and a lot of my friends did too. guess what, we are all alive,no perverts in the picture, and we had plenty of that funny thing called exercise. later om, we started to bike, you remember the single speed ones, where you actually had to work your legs, and it was uphill on the way home. and this was in all kinds of fucking weather too. we didn’t melt,drop like flies to a cold, or flu. we were fit, healthy, and had fun.get the fuck back to it people, your kids are too fucking lazy to walk, let them drag themselves then.
Comments are hilarious! Thanks for the laughs 🙂
Give it ten years and they’ll have a ‘Rolling Your Kid To School’ safety sheet.
Kids are fat and lazy these days usually because thier parents are fat and lazy. Not because they aren’t made to walk to school, you people are idiots, I just heard on the radio that another little girl almost got snatched by some gross old man, but she got away thankfully. Those of you dropping stats in here saying don’t worry chances of it happening are slim, must not have kids. Worries like these come with having kids if you don’t worry then you don’t care, and parents not really caring is the real reason why kids are fat and lazy these days.Funny thing is all you people in here saying I used to have walk…blah blah . Probably don’t do much of anything anymore in the form of exercise, practise what you preach.
walked uphill both ways in our jammies and when we got home our father would murder us and dance on our graves
I had to build the fire, feed the chickens, help milk the cows and walk 4 miles through the boggy woods (while avoiding the bears and Ol’ Man McGregor, the local perv) before I started school. And, if I was lucky, I didn’t have the teacher waiting for me with a strap in hand when I got there.
(The ‘you kids are so spoiled’ speech, I got 30some years ago)
Kirbul… that’s a really nice photo of Hfx. Where’d you steal it????
“Kids are fat and lazy these days usually because thier parents are fat and lazy.”
I don’t fucking think so! There are people who I know and are in good shape. They STILL drive their fat, little fucking, lazy kids to school! That’s if they can yank the spoiled little shits away from their Wii!!
“Not because they aren’t made to walk to school, you people are idiots, I just heard on the radio that another little girl almost got snatched by some gross old man, but she got away thankfully.”
Saw the same story on the news. Yeah, there are perverted turd fucks out there and the reason this little girl didn’t get snatched by this one is her parents most likely educated her properly. It’s the parents who don’t educate their kids who are the idiots. NOT the people in this forum. Most “kid snatchers” (i.e. predators) rely on the ignorance and weakness of children and take advantage of the fact. If parents were smart enough to teach their kids about the right and wrongs of “Mr. Nice Guy (or Ms. Nice Lady)” who are in a car or on the street, then there shouldn’t be so much concern. Just before my kids are old enough for school they are going to get a nice, long lecture regarding those “fucked in the head assholes” who are waiting to prey on the weak and naive. “If some man comes up to you on the street and tries to grab you, drive his nuts up into mouth with your big toe. Then run like the wind!” AND, if the parents are fat fucks, THEY should walk their fat kids to school so they ALL get some exercise!
Sorry Mr_Mcnasty, maybe I should have said fat and/or lazy. If you have friends that are in good shape but their kids are fat, then they are too lazy to get thier kids outside and make them eat the right foods. The picture is mine , took it with my camera from the Dartmouth side of the harbour.It sounds like your going to tell your kids to try and fight a man who will more then likely be twice their size, sounds like bad advice to me. Try telling your kids to scream as loud as they can and make as big a scene as they can while running away. It would be stupid to tell your kids “just before they are old enough to go to school” to try and hit or kick some stranger and then run, Seems to be a little to much for someone that age to handle.
Kirbul…
I agree, Smedley. The kids aren’t fat… just have lazy parents and, yes, the kids eat shitty food. At least they’re active.
Nice job on the photo.
You don’t know my kids. I don’t think either of my boys would be adverse to kicking some guys nuts up into his throat. Another thing I will teach them, and you reminded me of this when you said “…scream as loud…”, is carry a whistle to use in a situation like this one. Not one of those cheap plastic ones like from a toy store but one that’s not very breakable like the ones referees carry and, yes, they will be told to run like the wind after they “blow the whistle”… :D.