Travelling alone (2) - your SON

[whole diary]

[grahame]

Interesting results ... and not entirely what I expected.   It peaks at 12 or 13 in both polls ... but the poll for your son is much narrower in spread than the poll for yourself; I suppose that's natural, as I didn't ask "at what age would you have been allowed to travel alone.

I was commuting to school well before the age of 10 - "different times" as some people have said, but perfectly capable of my walking from St Mary Cray if the line via Petts Wood was blocked, or to Gypsy Hill if Sydenham Hill was unavailable.  So I was rather shocked when someone declined to let his son come to us because he couldn't travel alone - "he's only 14" he said.

Son v daughter is an interesting one - I'm not sure I can correlate Mookiemoo's answers on the same scale as mine.  I have one of each, and can recall both of them asking me "Dad, can I go to xxxx on my own for the weekend" and "Dad, can I come back from yyyyy".  Both had travelled with me from an early age, both had prepared their 'case' and studied their journeys before they even asked me.  Both cases - deep breath and "yes".

And I suppose we should remember with these surverys that we are a biased group and probably not a fair sample.