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Thank you everyone for your contributions. Hearing other people's stories helps to ease my mind. Even though I know this is completely acceptable given her age and maturity level, there is a little pestering voice of doubt in my head. Like I am being a bad parent.
For the previous three years she was picked up from school by a daycare center, but now that my schedule has changed, there is only one afternoon a week on which she cannot be picked up by either myself or her sister. And even though it is not the primary factor in making this decision, it is going to save me $240 a month in daycare expenses - no little amount in my newly part-time employed life.
And, ng, I see kindergarten age kids walking home a lot, too. It's funny that, in my childhood and probably yours, too, this was not an uncommon sight. I was either walking or biking to school and back by the time I was seven. But to see a child that age and younger on the streets today is almost surreal. And it's difficult not to pass judgment.
My mom has a psychologist friend who made a similar observation to your Penn and Teller reference...he says, as parents, we are almost always worrying about the wrong things.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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