JtB
Prepare a way for the Lord
- Location
- North Hampshire
4, 6 ish, 7 and 1960
at what age....
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Andrew_P
In between here and there
I have 3 daughters 8 12 15. And I am pretty much the same, but I cannot really tell you why. I survived and I think it did me good and I learnt a lot about life.
I do not think the world is much, if at all more dangerous than the 70's. Now you have mobile phones and if you are really paranoid you can track a phone.
I think it is peer generated and has become the norm. I am not sure who it protects me or my kids, I suspect it is the former.
Bromptonaut
Rohan Man
- Location
- Bugbrooke UK
School - 7ish (a mile away)
Shops - 9 after we'd moved within striking distance
Sister is inly 2 yrs younger so charge was an alien concept
Born 1959.
Shops - 9 after we'd moved within striking distance
Sister is inly 2 yrs younger so charge was an alien concept
Born 1959.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
10, 10, can't remember, 1969.
Seems late compared with others, but 10 was when we moved back to England from Belfast, so I can understand being on a tight rein before that.
Seems late compared with others, but 10 was when we moved back to England from Belfast, so I can understand being on a tight rein before that.
5 - 2 mile bike ride to village school, met up with others along the way.
5 - as above (in the village, we lived in rural Norfolk, very little traffic, only the Doctor & Farm owner had a car).
7 - only for a short time, (mother out with father hand hoeing sugar beet)
Born 1957
5 - as above (in the village, we lived in rural Norfolk, very little traffic, only the Doctor & Farm owner had a car).
7 - only for a short time, (mother out with father hand hoeing sugar beet)
Born 1957
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
7, 7, 10-ish and 1963
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Walked 1000 yards to my nursury school when I was four, under the supervision of my five year old BIg Sister.
Walked a mile and a half to school, across the city, with my mate Benny when I was five.
Walked to shops alone aged five.
Can't remember when I was left alone at home.
1954
Walked a mile and a half to school, across the city, with my mate Benny when I was five.
Walked to shops alone aged five.
Can't remember when I was left alone at home.
1954
Mine is probably pretty similar, although I can't be sure but I know that i walked to school,and the shops before we left Ascot and that happened when I was 6. Born in 1963, though.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Well, I remember walking home from School (1 mile) when I was 6. That, however was only because, due to an understanding, I missed my friend and his Mum who were supposed to be walking home with me.
Actually, I remember it happened twice, and I LOVED it (what my freind's Mum thought however I don't know).
I remember walking to and from school by myself when I was 10, but that was only because my big brother had started at the Academy instead. Before then we walked home together (starting when I was probably 7 or 8). I also got my first house key then (for obvious reasons).
I can't remember, but not very old, and probably before I learned to cycle. We had a couple of shops very nearby, one within easy toddling distance (which ironic as it is now a Nursery).
I was the youngest of 3, so never.
1982, the day HMS Sheffield was sunk in the Falklands in fact. War Baby me!
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
School - about 6 or 7 (can't remember but I can remember nearly getting my youngest sister run over when I crossed in a very small gap between cars when I was about 9.
Shops - probably about 8, (though it might have been younger when I was at my grandparents house.
In charge of getting dinner for siblings in the house on our own - about 8 (well putting dinner in the oven it was already prepared in the pot).
Born 1966
My children probably didn't walk to school until they were about 9 but then I was walking younger children to school anyway, and shops about the same age and in charge of siblings nearer to 12 (even then I felt guilty as I thought there was an age limit of 14 for a few years).
Shops - probably about 8, (though it might have been younger when I was at my grandparents house.
In charge of getting dinner for siblings in the house on our own - about 8 (well putting dinner in the oven it was already prepared in the pot).
Born 1966
My children probably didn't walk to school until they were about 9 but then I was walking younger children to school anyway, and shops about the same age and in charge of siblings nearer to 12 (even then I felt guilty as I thought there was an age limit of 14 for a few years).
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Damn this thread! It's got me trying to work out how old I was when I did my first London to coast and back ride. It must have been around 15 riding with a classmate down to Hastings - after that I did a few on my own. It must seem pretty early for unsupervised 100+ mile rides on the big boys' roads now but then it was just something you did on a sunny weekend, it was cheap and the parents didn't seem to worry at all.
5 5 never i was the youngest 1963
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Minor digression, sorry.
There was a kid round here in a quite busy part of west London who wandered off from his creche aged three and made it to his home four hundred yards down the pavement along a bustling road. Ever since, and he is now in his mid-teens, he has been known as The Bolter.
There was a kid round here in a quite busy part of west London who wandered off from his creche aged three and made it to his home four hundred yards down the pavement along a bustling road. Ever since, and he is now in his mid-teens, he has been known as The Bolter.
