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Did some Trick or Treating with the kids tonight (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by RedWizard@hexbear.net to c/parenting@hexbear.net

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It was fun! I swear though, I saw at least two different cars with their flashers on, flowing their kids as they trick or treated. This is a tight neighborhood, you can hit like 20 houses just going down two streets. One was a mini van and I overheard the adult driving tell their kid (the doors and trunk were open) "no you get out and walk".

I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt here, maybe the parent is disabled. But 10 minutes later I saw another car on a different street doing what looked like the same thing.

Maybe its just a fluke thing! First time I've seen that though.

How was everyone else night?

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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My personal bugbear is living near a high school in regional WA. It's pretty walkable - we have the extremely wide streets and footpaths typical of newer developments in AU. There's a school bus service. I see so, so many people driving their kids to school every GD day. High school kids! Admittedly I lived right by the school when I was attending but back in the day, if I asked for a lift in anything but torrential rain I would be laughed at. Get them a bicycle! It's a safe place and a healthy thing to do. Plus we simply cannot be using cars so much..

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

I work in a district and the amount of people who do not use our bus service is staggering. It takes the Elementary school almost an hour to dismisse kids because of the parent pickup. Its been getting better though.