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Re: Playing Out
I think you've got to start gradually allowing children a little bit more freedom as they grow. Otherwise parents would be taking their children to college and picking them up again to take home.
When mine were in the infants they were not allowed out of school until collected by a parent or other person known to the teacher. At that time they would play in the yard at home or just outside the house. By the time they were in the 'top end' of the Juniors they made their own way to school assisted by the lollypop lady at the road junction and they played out with friends, rode bikes and went up to the park in groups. When they got to High School they went there on their own and travelled on buses etc. Now Mimi is at college and has been to places such as Manchester with her mates. They have both been on camping trips with school, with church and to church dances as far away as Huddersfield. It's all part of growing up.
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