Walk To School Day

It's one of those "days" today - Walk To School Day. This is part of Greythorn Primary School's (Joshua's school) to promote its Walkng School Buses Programme scheduled to be launched next year. Essentially, they want to encourage parents to use the school bus programme when it's available to reduce the use of private cars when sending their kids to school.

Our friend was very eager to be part of the walk until I told him we had to be at the Greythorn Park by 8.30am so that all who were taking part in the event could walk to school together. Joshua was appalled by the thought of going out earlier. You see, we would be lucky if we could leave the house by 8.30am!

Kids being kids, Joshua and Joanne take their sweet time getting ready. (Thankfully we've only been late to school once. )And since I have no idea where Greythorn Park is - it's not that far from the school, I'm sure - I would need to give myself a few extra minutes to figure out where it is. And that would mean leaving the house by 8am. And since the kids' attachment to sleep is unbreakable, I decided not to keep pressing them about joining the walk.

Also, I think we did our share of walking the first few months of Joshua's school life - walking to the bus stop, catching the bus and then walking to school. Same thing after school. So they were excused from doing the walk.

We'll take part in the next special "day" activity instead. Hopefully it doesn't require waking up earlier than usual!