Recent generations of working parents dropping their children off at school on their way to work have received a bad press for blocking drive ways, parking on yellow lines, causing congestion and so on. Apart from saving time, using the car to drop children off ensures the parent their child has reached school safely. Of course, we then have the argument about unfit/obese children who miss out on nature walking to school!
So it made me smile reading in The Metro this morning about a group of mum’s who heard a women shouting she was being robbed, spotted two men loading items into their van and collectively used their cars to block the van and men in whilst the police were called! If they didn’t take their children to school in their cars, they wouldn’t have been able to do this…
There is always another way to look at things. I’ll remember this next time there is a bad press story about parents dropping their children off…… will you?
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