bxpuser7543

some things never change huh????????????????

bxpuser7543

i can relate to that 100%

Bob

You think that's bad...the highschool here is about 100m up the road, it's a couple houses down the road...and there's a kid two houses away from us, and I saw him waiting for the school bus....

bxpuser7543

is he still there?????????????

Bob

floated away if he still waited...we're getting a right shite storm of rain *lol*

ScyLarc

I used to do that too - the best day of my life (well back when i was about 8 anyway) was when i found 50p and spent it all on penny sweets. I had so many i was able to give every kid in my village a handful each.
Does anyone remember those sherbet Dib Dabs? I loved those, they were 10p so i didn't get them very often and after accidentally inhaling some of the sherbet once i nearly died and was banned from eating them ever again

Oh, and back on topic, i used to walk to school and ride the bus and it was the highlight of my day. Some of my favourite school memories either started at a bus stop or ended with one of us missing the last bus and having to walk 5 miles home!

Neathborn

I walked to school when I lived in England, but had to take the bus when we moved overseas and I went to a British school that was too far away to walk to. I enjoyed going by bus for the most part except for the time when our bus driver ran over a large dog that ran out into the road. Not a pleasant experience, especially when we realised what the bump in the road was.

I do find it funny that Americans generally dislike walking anywhere. Our 14 year old neighbour complained that the school bus wouldn't come and pick her up as she lived less than a mile away from the school and that she has to walk to school (her school is only about a 10-15 minute walk away!). My elder daughter starts kindergarten this September and she is going to a school that is within walking distance -- partly because we only have one car, so it makes things easier. Though at the age of 5 my daughter is already commenting on the fact that we don't have two cars like everyone else and why don't we get an "big car" (SUV) like the neighbours. Needless to say, we are not planning on getting another vehicle any time soon.

Dant3

I’m not sure if this kind of thing happened in small Yorkshire villages in the 1970’s, but it’s the reason why so many parents today think twice before letting their children walk to school.

The largest number of missing children are “runaways”; followed by “family abductions”; then “lost, injured, or otherwise missing children”; and finally, the smallest category, but the one in which the child is at greatest risk of injury or death, “nonfamily abductions.”

According to NISMART-2 research, which studied the year 1999, an estimated 797,500 children were reported missing; 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions; 58,200 children were abducted by nonfamily members; and 115 children were the victims of the most serious, long-term nonfamily abductions called "stereotypical kidnappings".

According to a 1997 study by the State of Washington’s Office of the Attorney General “the murder of a child who is abducted ... is a rare event. There are estimated to be about 100 such incidents in the United States each year, less than one-half of one percent of the murders committed”; however, “74 percent of abducted children who are murdered are dead within three hours of the abduction.”

The sexual victimization of children is overwhelming in magnitude yet largely unrecognized and underreported. Statistics show that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys are sexually exploited before they reach adulthood, yet less than 35% of those child sexual assaults are reported to authorities. According to Highlights of the Youth Internet Safety Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice “one in five children (10 to 17 years old) receive unwanted sexual solicitations online.”

Bob

Out in Japan, you'd see kids on there own on the underground or on the trains all the time...my mother use to commute 3 hours to school when she was a kid...wouldn't see that happening here I guess..

Noorah101

Hi there!

I'm American, and when I was growing up, I did the following:

1. From kindergarten to 4th grade, rode the school bus.
2. From 5th grade to 8th grade, walked to school (a couple of miles away)
3. From 9th grade to 11th grade, rode my bicycle to a different school (about 1 mile further)
4. Finally in 12th grade I got my own car and drove myself to school.

And yes, I totally enjoyed all the time spent walking and riding bikes with my friends to school. I never thought of it as odd. It was a rare treat to get a ride to school from mom or dad because of bad weather or some special occasion, and I enjoyed those too, since it was not the norm.

This was all back in the 1960's & 70's so I guess times have changed.

Rene

FlyergirlUK

Fruit salads!! Loved 'em, (still do) could never stand the blackjacks - ick!!

I don't ever remember getting that much value for my money though...

anotherlimey

Sherbert lemons were my favourite, I remember a time when the cashier at the local shop put the price in the weighing machine wrong, I got about 5lbs of them for £1.

emmals

lemon bon bons....and voice tablets.....staple part of any kids diet

AdobePinon

FIREBALLS!!! How many could you eat?

emmals

I have a big mouth and i'm ard as nails......I could get 3 in.....without my eyes watering.......I loved fireballs