Originally Posted by kaville /img/forum/go_quote.gif That is so sad! I live on a street that has many kids on it right in the village. But, our street has no stop signs so people FLY down it! One guy in a black pickup when we yelled at him to slow down he flipped us off!! We were so mad, we called the town police and swore out an affadavit of what he had done and how many times we had seen him speed by and they arrested him and gave him a ticket!!! He had to write a letter of apology to us and now the town occasionally puts one of those signs that say "YOUR SPEED IS...." to slow people down! I have a 2 yr. old so this is an issue I'm concerned with also. you'd think they would do more than do that, what wait until someone gets hit.
Originally Posted by pinksugar /img/forum/go_quote.gif that's terrible.. i cant believe the foolishness of some drivers, and of some parents. I went to school across the road from my house and my mum held my hand while I crossed the street up until I was 10 years old! i know, we taught my son when he was younger not to go in the road and he holds my hand even in a parking lot. i also think that they're letting kids too young ride the bus and walk to school, yeah it may make it easier not having to take them, but i feel better taking him to school myself.
Originally Posted by Manda /img/forum/go_quote.gif That is really sad, I agree with April on getting the police to moniter that area more. I also think parents need to drill it in their kids to NOT go out in the street and to not even play in the street. There are so many people that don't pay attention when they drive, speed, or are in such a rush in the mornings to get to work or school that they become careless.
Theres this family down the street from me and their kids are ALWAYS in the street, everyone who comes to my house always has a story about almost hitting their kids because the kids just run out in the street, or are outside playing and no adults are around. Most of us know to be especially careful around that house because of that.
I don't mean to put blame on parents, it's just some examples that I've seen lately that you know mroe can be done on the homefront. Honestly, I think a lot of kids weren't taught to pay attention. I had that stay-out of the street thing drilled into me, I was afraid to even ride my bike in the residential streets! Yesterday some highschooler on his bike ran into my sisters car! How do you not see a car stopped??
yeah i know, my son's not even allowed in our yard w/o being supervised, i only let him play on our back porch(which is screened or our back yard. it might sound like i'm overprotective, but i've heard too many stories of people running off the road and hitting some kid in the yard, that and other stuff. too many parents don't watch there kids like they should. i worked at a daycare in the prodjects yrs. ago, and some of the parents would let there 4 and 6yr. olds run the streets at night and they got caught breaking in the daycare. but the town this keeps happening i'm not familiar with. i hardly ever go through there, but hopefully the police do something.