Drive your kids to school, and the risk of harm, from walking to school, is not lessened, but eliminated.
if you could do something that not just mitigates risk, but eliminates it altogether, wouldn't you do that, especially where your children are concerned?
However, the risk from a car accident increases. You have only substituted one risk for another.
if you could do something that not just mitigates risk, but eliminates it altogether, wouldn't you do that, especially where your children are concerned?
Why stop there? She'll be even safer if I don't let her leave the house at all!
In fact, I could make her wear a helmet, elbow and knee pads as well as shin guards and steel-toed boots while she's IN the house.
...just to be sure.
Seriously though, the problem is that she grows up not knowing HOW to walk down the street safely! She grows up never walking by the neighbor's flower garden, or the old 1939 Lincoln in Mr. Miller's back yard. In short, she misses out on an important part of what it means to be a child. She grows up not feeling safe outside in a largely beautiful, safe world!
Will you let her drive a car when she's a teenager? Why take the risk? Don't ever let her get a license.
One of the most poisonous concepts in contemporary America is the idea that risk can be "eliminated altogether".
The only risk-free environment is the grave.