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Post by sugarlove on May 26, 2008 9:23:47 GMT
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Post by tvnightmare on May 26, 2008 10:00:49 GMT
In my days we walked or cycled to school...It is a shame now they have to make an event out of it.. Mums out there, walk with your children to school rather than drive them, it is better for everybody!
Drivers, watch out for the small people with big school bags!
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Post by sugarlove on May 26, 2008 18:07:36 GMT
o yes tv i have to hold my hands up sometimes i bold and drive but now the weather is so good the poor kiddies will be walking. they just hate the big heavy bags.... no wonder they got pains in their backs from the weight, as for the wheelie school bags they will cause someone to fall over them and most of the time its me... why do they not have two sets of books one for class and one for home then they would not have to carry them....a sure in mr a days they went to school in the hedge....... or did he..
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Post by April on May 26, 2008 18:47:55 GMT
A neighbour of mine bought two sets of books for her daughter when she went into secondary school. It would be a very big extra expense. She justified if by saying she would be able to pass to books to her other daughter when she started school.... secondary school books are so expensive.... But the curriculums change so much...... sure we all had to haul books back and forth to school...... they don't make them like they used to... spoilt rotten I say.... a little bit of hardship did no one any harm......
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Post by mrangry on May 26, 2008 18:55:40 GMT
We didnt even have a hedge sugarlove,we had to make do with just a bush.And even that lost its leaves in winter,so you can imagine what it was like.
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Post by mrangry on May 26, 2008 18:58:08 GMT
We used to DREAM of being eaten alive by beer bugs.
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Post by tvnightmare on May 26, 2008 18:58:54 GMT
We had big heavy books too and I walked to school in heavy snow as well.. You mummies of today are pampering these little ones far too much  |
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Post by Queenie on May 26, 2008 21:02:44 GMT
Well said tvn, I used to walk my lad to playschool and back every day, then big school, 3 miles a day, didn't do either of us a bit of harm. In fact it kept me very slim. Now, I'm back walking again to try to get that figure back, I bring my niece for a walk when she comes to visit me and she loves it, her mammy drives her everywhere. I'll have the legs walked off her in Orlando!!
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Post by chewchew on May 26, 2008 22:09:21 GMT
I walked to school every single day regardless of the weather and I only left school in 2001. my mammy didnt drop me to school once and i didnt get a day off school for having a headache. I had to be nearly on deaths door. no wonder the kids of today are bordering obesity. get out and walk yiz lazy sh1tes.
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Post by sugarlove on May 27, 2008 9:32:55 GMT
yes and chew would you send your darlings in todays times off to school on their own..... yes we drop our darlings to school and then when they go to secondary they pushed out the door, its like they all grown up too fast. as for safety well when we first moved here i had to place myself in danger just to cross the road safely to walk to school every day. the shouts i would get from drivers were an insult who the feck do you think you are stopping the trafic .. so after doing the traffic survey i did and sent to the council with the res backing we finally got lights yes it took someone to sit an hour each morning to count traffic to get this done and the poor council did not pay any company tax payers money to be told this is so unsafe for kids crossing ,,,, i so proud now all the little kiddies can walk safe.... but sometimes drivers do the blind thing and ignore them when red... o wish i was a warden i tell you they would not mess with me...
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Post by April on May 27, 2008 20:25:18 GMT
I certainly hope the weather is better than today for the children's walk to school day... It should be "parents and childrens" walk to school day.......
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Post by April on May 29, 2008 18:32:07 GMT
Well, was the walk to school day a success?  |
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