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Old 10-21-2022, 09:20 AM   #3181
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That's funny because I prefer MM/DD/YY specifically because of how it sorts.

Using MM/DD/YYYY, the oldest date will always be the smallest number. If I see 01 to start, I know it's at the beginning of the year.
Only if you have everything segregated by year already. Otherwise Jan of 2022 is right next to Jan of 21

Year has to be first.
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Old 10-21-2022, 09:26 AM   #3182
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Yyyy-mm-dd is the only acceptable written format. It sorts properly.
Please if you're not using ticks from unix epoch you're doing it wrong.
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Yyyy-mm-dd is the only acceptable written format. It sorts properly.
I prefer yyyy.mm.dd aesthetically (but that's entirely a subjective personal preference).
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Old 10-21-2022, 09:50 AM   #3184
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Yyyy-mm-dd is the only acceptable written format. It sorts properly.
It's the best format for spreadsheets, computing, and historical references but it a backwards way to read the date on a day to day basis. The day and month is always of more interest when discussing dates in a current year.
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Old 10-21-2022, 09:54 AM   #3185
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It's completely sensical and you proved it in your own post. It's in the order that literally everybody actually write out or says dates. Nobody says "8th January."

The majority of Europe does.
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In general you should be banned from dropping off kids and picking them up with vehicles at school.

Kids/parents can walk or if farther than walking distance take the bus. Such a waste of traffic space.

For my kids to get to their designated junior high it is >1 hour each way on city transit with transfers, and the bus to the LRT station only runs on demand. Meanwhile my wife works quite close to their school. So driving them makes sense for us.
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I don't care how close we may live to our son's future school (he's only 2), I'll be driving him. Like hell I'll trust Calgary drivers to stop for him on busy streets. Refer back to recent post of how bad Calgary drivers have gotten.
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Old 10-21-2022, 10:09 AM   #3188
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I don't care how close we may live to our son's future school (he's only 2), I'll be driving him. Like hell I'll trust Calgary drivers to stop for him on busy streets. Refer back to recent post of how bad Calgary drivers have gotten.
Well, dude, you'll have taught him how to cross the fataing street by the time he's walking to the bus stop or school by himself. Probably feels like he'll never be capable of doing that, but starting probably around now you'll go over walking safety with him literally every single time you walk anywhere for the next five years. It'll be drilled into him. Last thing we need is another helicopter parent out there thinking it's unsafe for kids to fricken go for a walk in their own neighbourhood.
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You can teach safety rules and caution until their ears fall off, but you can't teach them to be mind-readers when it comes to unobservant, ****ty drivers.
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I don't care how close we may live to our son's future school (he's only 2), I'll be driving him. Like hell I'll trust Calgary drivers to stop for him on busy streets. Refer back to recent post of how bad Calgary drivers have gotten.
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You can teach safety rules and caution until their ears fall off, but you can't teach them to be mind-readers when it comes to unobservant, ****ty drivers.
Ya gotta release them into the big bad world at some point. Allowing the child freedom & responsibility at a young age is good for development of humans, IMO.
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That's the problem that just compounds itself.

"I have to drive my kids to school because there's too much traffic around the school from all the parents who drive their kids to school."
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Well, dude, you'll have taught him how to cross the fataing street by the time he's walking to the bus stop or school by himself. Probably feels like he'll never be capable of doing that, but starting probably around now you'll go over walking safety with him literally every single time you walk anywhere for the next five years. It'll be drilled into him. Last thing we need is another helicopter parent out there thinking it's unsafe for kids to fricken go for a walk in their own neighbourhood.
I used to live two blocks away from a school and you would be surprised how many close calls there are with kids parents and traffic around a school area. The safest way unfortunately is to drive them there and drop them off. That school was on a main drive however which compounds the issues as you have local traffic and school traffic. If a school is tucked away like the one in Arbor Lake one of my boys go to it's not as big a deal.
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I used to live two blocks away from a school and you would be surprised how many close calls there are with kids parents and traffic around a school area. The safest way unfortunately is to drive them there and drop them off.
getback is right, if ya'll stopped driving your kids 2 blocks there would be less vehicles around.

Maybe have them helicopter in
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getback is right, if ya'll stopped driving your kids 2 blocks there would be less vehicles around.

Maybe have them helicopter in
I didn't drive my kids. They were walked and one of my boys still ran on the road once and was hit by a car (non-life threatening injuries). I'm just saying there were lots of close calls and while the odds are in your favor it can happen to anyone.
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I didn't drive my kids. They were walked and one of my boys still ran on the road once and was hit by a car (non-life threatening injuries). I'm just saying there were lots of close calls and while the odds are in your favor it can happen to anyone.
That's terrible your boy was hit, I hope it has no long term effects.
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That's terrible your boy was hit, I hope it has no long term effects.
I don't think so as he gets migraines but there's no link that it's related. He was concussed and had some facial injuries that healed. It was 10 years ago and sometimes I look at him and think of that day, if he ran one foot further into the road, that pickup truck kills him. Things can happen that fast and you really can't take these things for granted with young children.
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I used to live two blocks away from a school and you would be surprised how many close calls there are with kids parents and traffic around a school area. The safest way unfortunately is to drive them there and drop them off. That school was on a main drive however which compounds the issues as you have local traffic and school traffic. If a school is tucked away like the one in Arbor Lake one of my boys go to it's not as big a deal.
Are school crossing guard programs still a thing or no? I can see why they existed.
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I used to live two blocks away from a school and you would be surprised how many close calls there are with kids parents and traffic around a school area. The safest way unfortunately is to drive them there and drop them off. That school was on a main drive however which compounds the issues as you have local traffic and school traffic. If a school is tucked away like the one in Arbor Lake one of my boys go to it's not as big a deal.
I wouldn't be surprised at all. I have two kids that walked 1km to school from the time they were elementary. Can't remember the exact grade, maybe grade threeish? I realize there are risks, but if anything kids walking to school now are safer than when we were young. They have reflective #### on their shoes and backpacks, they've been taught well, cars are safer and stop faster (and more and more are doing so automatically), and - most importantly - they need to learn how to navigate the world. I don't subscribe to the school of thought where you try to change the world to suit your kid; your kid has to work with the world in which we live.

I just can't believe we're talking about driving our kids to school instead of walking. Walking was fun. Hang with your buddies. Get exercise. Make impromptu plans with each other. This is weird.
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I just can't believe we're talking about driving our kids to school instead of walking. Walking was fun. Hang with your buddies. Get exercise. Make impromptu plans with each other. This is weird.
I do think drivers today are much worse (or maybe more distracted) than in the day. I don't recall any close calls with vehicles as a kid or young adult or any friends being run over and we used to walk and bicycle everywhere compared to today where it seems kids are driven around more. Now even myself as a pedestrian daily I have had some close calls.
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I do think drivers today are much worse (or maybe more distracted) than in the day. I don't recall any close calls with vehicles as a kid or young adult or any friends being run over and we used to walk and bicycle everywhere compared to today where it seems kids are driven around more. Now even myself as a pedestrian daily I have had some close calls.
No one had a phone to stare at in their crotch when you went to school, that's half the issue today.
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