• no time she spends without one or both of us around her

    10yo's aren't allowed out by themselves these days?

  • 10yo's aren't allowed out by themselves these days?

    She could but there's nowhere really for her to go. It would just be for an aimless walk and she can do that kind of thing when we're all out on a walk.

    She used to walk to her tennis lesson and back, or go to the playground a few hundred meters away but none of that is possible now as it's all shut.

  • Running down to the postbox to post letters to family is a good little independent journey we've found.

  • I used to hoon around on my bike when I was a kid. Nothing has really changed.

    I'd have thought modern children would be quite happy to just sit in a corner staring at an ipad, get fed, stare at an ipad, get fed, stare at an ipad, get fed, sleep repeat.

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