Sentences with phrase «walk to school alone»

When nobody else is sending their kids across the street to the park to play or allowing them to walk to school alone, it can be a lonely road to travel.

Maybe it's time to allow Junior to walk to school alone?

The Legal Standing of Free - Range Parenting An amendment in the new federal education law seeks to clarify when kids are allowed to walk to school alone.

Certainly children under the age of eight are not developmentally ready to walk to school alone.

Back when it was safe to walk to school alone at a young age, I would make the walk from my home, with her house as a little pit stop, and we would resume the trek (because it really did feel like a trek) together.

Back when it was safe to walk to school alone at a young age, I would make the walk from my home, with her house as a little...

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And in some states, even though there is a federal law that says you can allow your children to walk to and from school alone, state and local laws still trump that ruling.

(It isn't fair to label parents who want to, say, walk an 8 - year - old to school «helicopter parents» — that particular family may live near busy streets, that child may not be ready to navigate those streets on his own, or those parents may simply want to wait till their child is a little older before he walks alone.)

Meanwhile, in a village three hours from the capital, a 14 - year - old girl named Hirut (Tizita Hagere) is walking home alone from school, enjoying the good news that she has been promoted from the fourth to the fifth grade.

It took months of walking around the periphery of the school before I worked up the courage to sit in the lunch area and eat alone.

A similar case ended slightly differently in Belleville, where a teacher was charged with discharging a six - year - old student at the end of the school day without a parent or guardian, allowing her to walk home alone.

Boys from all walks of life, including boys who seem to have made it — the suburban high school football captain, the seventh - grade prep school class president, the small - town police chief's son, the inner - city student who is an outstanding cartoonist and son of a welfare mother — all were feeling so alone that f worried that they often seemed to channel their despair into rage not only toward others but toward themselves.

So, too, is the likelihood of something terrible happening to a child left alone in a car or walking alone to school.

Permitted activities for such children include walking or bicycling to school; traveling to and from nearby «commercial or recreational facilities»; playing outside; remaining in a vehicle without supervision, except in conditions putting the child's health at risk; and staying home alone.

Among the common sense recommendations to minimize risk to children walking to school were: not to allow those under the age of 10 to walk alone; to only cross at marked crosswalks; and to choose a route with the least number of street crossings.

This service is designed to keep students enrolled in the school safe at night and preventing them from walking or biking alone after dark.

None of my school mum mates were available for a walk to help me de-stress, which left me to pout alone for the night and try not to grit my teeth in frustration lest they pack it in again.