Secret Teacher: The road to safety is paved with wrong intentions

Where is a child is safer: at home, or on a road alone?

A child on a road alone triggers our alert system. We’re wrong.

Last week, I let my ten-year-old cross the road. Alone.

I’d shown him how to cross safely loads of times. I watched from my bedroom window. He made it. When I was his age, I reminded myself, I was biking through entire suburbs.