Good Parenting Skills? : Tue Nov 26, 2013 9:24 pm  

Would you feel comfortable transporting your kids through heavy traffic to school in this contraption?

Would you feel comfortable transporting your kids through heavy traffic to school in this contraption?

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:56 pm  

Other than it's at the front, it's no different to carting kids around in one of those bike trailer things. Anyway it's about time they mandated crumple zones for bikes and they seem ideal

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:25 am  

Seen several of them in London – and loads more in Amsterdam.

They're not new.

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:30 am  

No way I would have taken my kids to school in something like that!!

Then I didn't feel the need to take my kids to school at all - they were more than capable of organising themselves to do the task.

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:59 am  

The children in the photographs look like they're about three or four – your children were "organising themselves" to get themselves to nursery/school at that age?

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:39 pm  

Mintball wrote:

The children in the photographs look like they're about three or four – your children were "organising themselves" to get themselves to nursery/school at that age?

It was more of a general comment - we are far too 'protective' of our children we stifle their independence and ability to learn their limits for themselves.

Has society really got that much more sinister in the last 30 years that are children need watching 24/7?

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:40 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

It was more of a general comment - we are far too 'protective' of our children we stifle their independence and ability to learn their limits for themselves.

Has society really got that much more sinister in the last 30 years that are children need watching 24/7?

On that I agree entirely.

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:55 pm  

Many things have changed over 30 years that have lead to an increase in children being privately transported to school but think stranger danger is probably way down the list of reasons, if that is what you meant by society becoming more sinister.

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:05 pm  

LF13 wrote:

Many things have changed over 30 years that have lead to an increase in children being privately transported to school but think stranger danger is probably way down the list of reasons, if that is what you meant by society becoming more sinister.

You might have a realistic attitude toward 'stranger danger', but I think a lot of people genuinely believe it's a much bigger threat than it is.

Re: Good Parenting Skills? : Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:15 pm  

You're right, but I was meaning there are other reasons, e.g. busier roads, choosing schools out of catchment are, accessibilty to a vehicle, working life, etc. that come before stranger danger is a consideration