[blparent] What's the right age?

[Peggy]

I don't think 4 is to young to play in someone's house if you know the kids 
and the parents.  However, as others have said on this list, I think she 
should tell you when she's going into a different yard, into a house, just 
anytime she changes locations.  My son is 12 and I still make him do this 
that way I know where he is supposed to be at all times.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:21 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] What's the right age?

Hi.  I have a question about when to lengthen the apron strings a little.

Sarah's friends were playing outside this afternoon.  There were two girls 
of about ten, then one Sarah's age, and a younger kid who's maybe two or so. 
I told Sarah she could go play ball with them.  I went into the house to 
work for a little while because I knew Sarah was fine.  But when I went 
outside to check, they weren't in the yard anymore.  They probably went into 
the house to watch a movie or something.

So, when do you let them have a little room?  At four, is Sarah old enough 
to be playing at someone else's house when I'm not there?  I don't want to 
be one of those helicopter moms who hovers too much.  I know the mother of 
the girls who live there.  But I thought they would stay in the yard. 
Should I let it be, or go get her?

Sarah's dad thinks it's fine and I'm just acting a little paranoid.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
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