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Yeah I'm not doing that. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 21 hours ago by [M] to c/childfree@lemmy.world
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[+] -13 points 20 hours ago (9 children)

By 1st grade they should be capable of getting up and out without you, less you absolutely have to drive them there.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (7 children)

    Back up. You're expecting six-year olds to wake up on time, shower, get dressed, make and eat breakfast, and get to school? All by themselves?

    What the hell kind of accelerated-evolution six-year olds do you know?

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago

    Yeah I have to conclude that I live in a simulation after reading the Finn's comment. Because the only explanation for them saying this is that I live in a simulation that occasionally needs to recalibrate itself to what I find believable. They are saying that most practically-toddlers in Finland are just as responsible as adults if not more so.

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  • [–] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

    That's not at all unusual in Finland. I walked alone to daycare before I even started pre-school - granted it was at the end of the street I lived on.

    The City of Helsinki encourages children to walk or bike to school. It is quite safe and several studies have shown that the daily exercise improves school performance. Children with a disability can apply for special school transportation.

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Did you also do all the other stuff by yourself? I walked to school by myself, too, but I certainly didn't do all of that by myself.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago

    My mom usually woke me up since she was already awake anyway but if she didn't I would've just used an alarm. I knew how to get dressed and make myself a bowl of cereal at that age and I don't need to pack a lunch because it gets served at the school for free.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago*

    Old American here. My mom got us all up and made us breakfast, because she didn't want us eating what we could make by ourselves--cereal was only for the weekends. After that, we were on our own to get dressed and get out the door. Starting in the first grade when I was still five for a couple of months, I walked to school with my older brother and sister till they went to a different school, and we all walked with kids from the neighborhood. No one walked alone.

    So, while I could have gotten up, made cereal, and gotten myself to school starting in first grade, I'm glad I didn't need to. Because my mom loved me.

    Mom making breakfast ended when I started high school, but I was the last of four kids, and she was more than done with all of it by then.

    If my mom hadn't made us breakfast, my sister probably would have, she loved doing that stuff. She also had her first kid when she was 22, and then had two more.

    I made my son breakfast (never cereal, always a hot breakfast) every school-day morning through 10th grade, when he said he wanted to do it himself. I didn't mind doing it, but I've always been a morning person.

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