Avon Speaks Up: Do You Wait with Your Child at the Bus Stop?

Inspired by a drive up Route 32 earlier this week, during which one Patch editor saw very few unattended students waiting to be picked up for school, Patch asked parents, 'do you walk with your kids to the bus stop?' 

Well, Avon has answered! 

• "I do every day for my 6 year old daughter, that way i know she gets on bus safe and sound. And i have the best bus driver on bus #3!!"
  

• "I let my 4th grader walk to the bus stop alone, but I do not let my 1st grader walk alone. With that said, there are always at least 2 to 3 parents at the bus stop every morning. I always meet them at the bus stop after school. You just never know these days!"
• "As soon as my daughter got to middle school she wanted to go to the bus stop by herself. My son who is 3rd grade I think will want that independence earlier. But the bus stop for Whiting Lane is only three houses away so I'm ok with him making that decision. Things are certainly different from when I was a child."
• "I think the perception is that there is danger but a police officer once told me there is a greater chance of a child being hit by lightening then be abducted. We smother them too much which isn't good."