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At what age...
... did/will you trust your kids to play outside themselves? Is your yard fenced in or open? What kind of fence, if you have one?
We have a nice big lot and plenty of room for kiddos to play, but none of it is fenced. We don't really want it fenced in, but we're at the point where it would be nice to have an area to let T roam free and be able to sit and watch him without having to chase him down when he gets distracted and wants to run down the driveway. I feel like his outside time is limited because we don't have much time to chase him around on weekends, and he clearly can't be out there himself yet. I'm debating if it's worth the money to fence in an area for him to be. I can't seem to find any outdoor-friendly temporary fences that aren't dog kennels... and I'm not sure I really want to put my kid in a fenced area meant for a dog anyway. Am I right that it's weird, or just say a fence is a fence?
We might end up just putting up a traditional wooden fence of some sort in a small area of the yard and mulch it so we don't have to worry about cutting grass in it (we have only a ride-on mower right now). I need to price it out and hope it's not so bad and we can do it and be done. Even when T is old enough to be trusted without a fence, C will be a couple years behind him.
And please forgive my rambling today. At least 1 person in our household has been sick with a nasty stomach bug since last Friday and I got very little sleep last night but had to drag myself to work because I have no sick or vacation time left after taking the last 2 days off.
Re: At what age...
I don't have kids, but I think my parents let me outside, in our fenced in yard (we lived in the city then--ie providence/oak hill area) for as long as I can remmeber. We moved from there when I was 8, so i was at least as young as 4 or 5 in the yard a
i think that would work well for him then. Theirs is made of that white fencing, the plastic, vinyly fencing. I don't know what it's called but it looks like this: http://
My kids don't go outside by themselves yet. DD will be 5 and DS will 3 next month. We are on a small cul-de-sac right off a main road, and while our road is quiet, there's just too much for me to chance. We have a mostly open lot. There is a fence alon
We have an open yard but we live in the "country." We have only one house next door so it is a very very quiet street. Lauren was probably 5 when I let her outside by herself or with the neighbor children alone. Megan is 3, she can go
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