Happy Wet & Wild Thursday Everyone!!!

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Originally Posted by natalie

hahah you hit the teacher! Man there have been times I wanted to do that when my son was in primary school.
I was a terror of a teenager and my mum always said exactly the same thing to me LOL "wait till you have your own kids then i wanna here you talk" But so far I reckon I must be doing a better job than her haha, touch wood. But then she had 2 of her own and 3 step children, all teenagers at one stage. Plus then had 2 more babies... And there 3 more older stepkids as well. 10!!! Fuck that.

I don't know if where I live is heaps different to where you are Stu but my girl started walking on her own to school at about 10, maybe 9. I thought it was good to give her some independence. When there was a couple of abductions near here I almost panicked but I didn't want my kids to be paranoid so I just gave her the stranger talk again and let her keep going. The footpaths here are pretty busy with people out for exercise and most of the houses belong to retirees so I figure its not too bad.
This year she has to take a bus and the other day she missed it so I called her a cab. Thats when I got a bit worried and sms'd her all morning till she replied and told me she was at school lol.

grin its funny to see how we think, but we live in an other town then where her school is, i was always so protected , also i never was late to pick them up at their school, i remember the times i waited on my mom and she was late, it was something i told myself it would never happen to me when i have kids and it didnt, i know i am over protected...........she is just getting grown up, but hell she is 11, she is still a little kid for me, although she has the mouth of an 18 year old..........doohhhhh i wonder from whom she got that........i will go thru to this, still i will hide some places to watch if she gets save at school, i know i know i am bad, but heay i am just a mom...to be real, i wanted to sabotage her bike, so she should ask me to drive her to school......geeze i am a weenie