let go! don't let go!Down at the school on Friday afternoon, I picked my way through the rows of Range Rovers gridlocking the school entrance as other parents arrived too, to pick up the sprogs... chatting with a mum about how I wished we'd smuggled her mobile into her rucksack. Another mum piped in, "I sent mine off with his mobile, and he didn't ring me once!"
So things could be worse.
And then the coaches arrived and Katie appeared, with a rucksack as big as she is, and we said our cautious hellos. It was OK, she hadn't gone completely feral.
So we walked home together.
Awwww :-) I hope she had fun! Sure she did.
ReplyDeleteMy sister used to collect her "sprogs" from school on foot, occasionally asked to collect others only to find that they had never had to walk anywhere!
ReplyDeleteBefore it was fashionable to be green my children were labelled as 'poor' because we always walked to school and back (we were poor too, but we saw more insects and birds than anyone else and had pine cones thrown at us by squirrels – a lot more fun than sitting in a car).
ReplyDeleteThe mum who broke the rules is an excellent illustration of why parents shouldn’t interfere.
I bet Katie had a wonderful time
We used to go in by tandem, until she became confident enough to walk on her own. That was quite fun too.
ReplyDeleteShe had an OK time, apparently. Which hopefully translates into 'wonderful' if you take the understatement out.