Walking to school & crossing roads

[MrsFabuloso]

As Jellyfish said, children's brains aren't mature enough to use the skills needed to process information necessary to them to cross a road safely until between 8 and 10 years of age.

As you say, children lack the maturity to process situations of danger or perceived danger from other people. They do dumb things, being kids and all.

Walking my kids across a road, or 10 mins to school is the least of my parenting duties. It's a no brainer for me, and one of the easiest ways I can keep my babies safe.

I used to walk to school when I started year 6, so would have been about 11 or 12. It was a good 20 min walk for an adult. I had men stop and ask me to get into their car about 3 times during the few years I used to walk to school. Luckily, I was a suspicious and un-trusting child. Otherwise, I suspect I would have been one of those tragic kidnapping statistics too. It's part of the reason I won't let my kids walk to school alone. They could go with friends when they're a little older (maybe!) but certainly never alone.