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Originally Posted by pepper24
I remember in grade 1 walking alone to catch the school bus no matter the weather. Now when I drive past a bus stop you see kids that are pushing 10 years old with parents waiting for them to catch the bus. If it's below zero there's a line of up idling cars that rival a Tim Horton's drive-thru. Don't want little Skylar getting frost bite. I have fond memories of snow balls fights or pulling girls hair while waiting for the bus. Now you'd probably get expelled for any of those harmless antics from a taddling parent.
The irony is that most of these parents who are walking/driving their kids to bus stop walked alone when they were kids.
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Walking to school for the first time by myself without my parents or a teacher was a huge deal, and I think looking back that the world got a whole lot bigger then. Suddenly you had lost the protection of your dad or mom or in my case your older sister who seriously was more likely to feed me to a bully then protect me.
But at the end of that first day when you got home and you were still alive and unbeaten you puffed out your chest a little bit, and your story at the dinner table of your day at school got a little taller.
How was your day at school?
It was great, some giant grade three kid tried to pick a fight with me and I totally beat him up and threw him through some guys fence.