{"id":10354,"date":"2012-09-07T01:29:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10354"},"modified":"2012-09-07T01:29:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:29:56","slug":"the-school-run-all-500-metres-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10354","title":{"rendered":"The School Run\u2026 All 500 Metres Of It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0<a title=\"Woman drives kids half a mile to school\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/lifestyle\/family\/i-drive-my-children-half-a-mile-to-school-1303515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story in yesterday\u2019s Mirror<\/a> made me think various things.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the newsfeeds are filled with stories about going back to school, being careful driving near schools, and so on. The one topic that isn\u2019t addressed in any of the stories I\u2019ve seen is how the idiots who actually do the school runs should drive.<\/p>\n<p>As a whole, the people who drive school runs are literally the worst drivers on the planet. They stop wherever they want, and once they\u2019ve picked up their own brats they don\u2019t give a toss about anyone else\u2019s. They park on corners, on yellow lines, on the yellow zig-zags &#8211; anywhere. And once they\u2019ve loaded their brood they just drive off (or do a u-turn) without consideration for anyone else. They\u2019re worse than taxis.<\/p>\n<p>So, this woman the Mirror talks about (from Manchester) is especially entertaining when she says she drives her kids the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">half mile<\/span> to school &#8211; <strong>but she isn\u2019t a bad mother.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got news for you about that, dear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The kid is not going to get any exercise if you drive her such ridiculously short distances. She\u2019s not going to learn any sort of independence and will rely on you until she\u2019s old enough to drive herself. She won\u2019t mix with other kids with you mollycoddling her. You can gloss it up as much as you like, but you are being irresponsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0story in yesterday\u2019s Mirror made me think various things. At the moment, the newsfeeds are filled with stories about going back to school, being careful driving near schools, and so on. The one topic that isn\u2019t addressed in any of the stories I\u2019ve seen is how the idiots who actually do the school runs should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}