One day, they will cross without you. Better that they really know how to do it.
He goes to his friend's house by bike, or he walks home from collège (middle school, around 11-15 years old) for the first time. You told him to be careful. He said yes.
And for the next twenty minutes, you only think about one particular intersection. The one where cars turn without looking.
You can no longer accompany him. You can still teach him.
It’s the phrase we repeat the most, and it’s the least useful: it doesn’t say what to look at, nor when, nor in what order.
Before age 10, a child sees less well on the sides than an adult, poorly judges the speed of a car, and believes that a driver who sees them will necessarily stop.
What they need are not recommendations. They need precise rules, in a fixed order, that they can apply without thinking.
The safest solution… until the day it stops. And on that day, he will not have learned more.
He hears the phrase. He still doesn’t know exactly what it asks him to do at the edge of the sidewalk.
A good initiative — one session, once, often in CE2 (around 8-9 years old). It’s a reminder, not a learning process.
This book does not replace your trips together. It does what none of the three do: give him precise actions he can repeat alone, on foot, by bike, and by scooter.
26 chapters in 4 worlds (on foot, by bike, by scooter, by car and by bus), verified article by article in the highway code — and illustrated with Malo & Lila:
You arrive at the pedestrian crossing, the car slows down, you step forward. And it’s him who holds you by the sleeve: the driver didn’t look at you.
He is right. And he repeats the rule to you, word for word, as he read it.
This is the moment you understand that it’s done: he no longer follows, he decides.
A real book to read together before he goes out alone — and to reread as he grows up.
And a parent who breathes a little easier when they turn the corner of the street.
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