This sounds well thought out, useful teaching for your children. Most importantly, through observing your daughter’s behaviour and attention, you could gauge how able Lily was to attend to/focus on traffic from both directions. The learner teaches you what’s going on; teaching is mutual learning.
This post also brings the retrospective horror of walking to school (as a primary aged child 6/7yrs) when the walk, three miles each way, involved crossing a main road. I did not know, (up until I reached twenty years old) that most people saw differently to me. Buses, cars, blackboards, TVs all were very blurry, I figured it was ‘normal.’ Turns out I was always extremely myopic (-10 currently) So, hopefully all children have great eye testing and great eyesight once they’re able to understand the elements of street crossing!
This sounds well thought out, useful teaching for your children. Most importantly, through observing your daughter’s behaviour and attention, you could gauge how able Lily was to attend to/focus on traffic from both directions. The learner teaches you what’s going on; teaching is mutual learning. This post also brings the retrospective horror of walking to school (as a primary aged child 6/7yrs) when the walk, three miles each way, involved crossing a main road. I did not know, (up until I reached twenty years old) that most people saw differently to me. Buses, cars, blackboards, TVs all were very blurry, I figured it was ‘normal.’ Turns out I was always extremely myopic (-10 currently) So, hopefully all children have great eye testing and great eyesight once they’re able to understand the elements of street crossing!