How does your child get to school?

My children go to school by either walking or riding a public utility vehicle by themselves. If I want them to ride, I give them money to pay the ride. If I want them to walk, I don't give them any money for a ride. My kids understood that many times they have to walk because it will help them to be strong as they exercise walking. But my little girl is telling me sometimes that she'll get tired of walking. I just ignore her complaints!

My son always go to school without using the public transport. It's not fait to say that it's not useful, but when using public transport, you save time. So, I hope he will become to go to school by bus for example.

i was lucky that my parents raised us in the city..i used to walk 5 minutes to school..my cousins were in the country& they used to walk 2 hours to school..my younger brother used to walk 10 hours to his boarding school for we were broke of money! see?

My grandson is to go to primary school coming semester. The transport is under consideration as it is not on the way his parents going to work. They will have to get up earlier, or hire a help, or some other means. Decades ago, we went to school by ourselves, and in the country, children go a longer way through hills or across streams. But in cities, for the heavy traffic, and other concerns, few would go by themselves until a bit grown up. And school buses are not popular except for few private schools. It remain a big issue for the parents. Sometimes, grandparents are involved to support if living nearby. So far we are still awaiting last notice.

I understand the problem.Todays kids wants to live a luxurious life and sometime they don't bother for their parents.My kids also don't like to walk even to a farlong to the school bus, even the don't like the idea of goin to scool in schoolbus.They incist me to buy a car for them.But proper counseling may find a solution.Be friendly to them,teach them that walking is a good healthy exercise.In my times we too walk more than a mile to our school.But in those days we lived in a joint family, and all my cousins and friends form neighbour walk togethr to the school.That's a great pleasure,we walked playfully. But now a days that environment is not there, we become nucleous family, even neigbours kids are in all different schools.As lots of schools come up. For diferent status different schools. Most kids become alone.So the problem grows. We have to adjust with the situtation.

My father drives my son to school everyday, and pick him up 3 horus after. he is still in kinder so classes here only takes 3 hours. The school is like a mile away from the house, since my dad doesnt have work, so he is the one driving the kids to school. But when im home and dont have work, im the one who brings him to school, i hang out with the other parents in the school, then gos home after class. But this only happens like once a week, so mostly its the my dad who does the honor. lols!

When I was in school I usually took the bus in the morning...and then when I started high school, my dad and I would leave at the same time so he would drive me to school because even though the high school was about 1.5 miles from my house it was on his way out of town, so he drove me everyday until my senior year when I got my first car. I very rarely took the bus home from school because I always had my sports or some after school program so my mom would have to pick me up (unless it was during senior year) because by the time I got out it was almost dark. A couple of times I did walk home from school but that was when I missed the bus and my mom wasn't around to pick me up from school.

Hi thea09!Well, now my children ride the bus being that there school is about 10 miles away, which makes sense to me. However, about 2 yrs ago we lived in another city about 20 miles from where we are at now and this school district didnt have any buses, yes, none at all! I was not happy with this because we lived a good 2+ miles from the school and the only two ways were very high traffic streets. It was a long walk with hills and dangerous too. I guess the school districts budget couldn't afford it!

my primary-school going children (2 of them) go to school on the school bus.. their school is quite far, they have to cross a major, very busy road if they were to walk to school - i will risk them doing that.. and if they have any after school activities, and the schoolbus wont take them - i would tell them to miss the activity, or i would try to arrange anyone of their friends' parents to take them..

Dear thea,

Fortunately, the school where I went to primary and high school was only about 150 meters from our house. And so as the schools where our kids go to, is only about 60 meters for the pre-school and 250 meters for our primary school kid. But our freshman girl goes to school by riding a tricycle, a motorcycle with attached cabin for passengers. Tricycle ride is only about 10 minute ride for a 7 pesos fare.