9 British Childhood Rules That Shock American Parents

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• PE

  @peterjohnson1091 · 1 month ago

  "If you break a leg, don't come running to me".

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• FI

  @fionagregory9147 · 1 month ago

  We had school dinners cooked by cooks who worked at the school.

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• TO

  @TootlinGeoff · 1 month ago

  Bedtime wasn't rigidly at 7pm. It gradually gets older as kids grow older. That's what happened when I was I was a child and it's how we raised our daughters.

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• SM

  @Smokeysph · 1 month ago (edited)

  Uniforms are also (as well as preventing catwalk culture in schools), useful for identifying which school a child attends.  So if there are hundreds of kids running round together, on school trips, for example, they can all be identified. at a glance and counted by the teachers.

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• JA

  @jackx4311 · 1 month ago

  It does NOT "rain all the time" in Britain.  It rains FREQUENTLY - but that is fundamentally different.

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• SI

  @simonpowell2559 · 1 month ago

  The level of paranoia in the States is quite frightening.

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• KE

  @kennym5898 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Omg a kid walking down a street alone without wearing full body armour!

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• FR

  @franciscook5819 · 1 month ago

  An aside re. the use of language in front of the kids. My ex-wife was driving my then four year old step daughter sitting sweetly in her seat watching the world go by, when some fool pulled out in front of her car causing her to brake suddenly. A little voice from the back of the car chimed in "Dipstick!". The kids not only pick up the words but the right context in which to use them - often to hilarious effect, when least expected.

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• BL

  @blissy1 · 1 month ago

  Take a child to a bar where smoking is still allowed in the US whereas smoking in pubs in the UK banned

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• AL

  @albin2232 · 1 month ago

  Thanks Olivia.<br>My mother took me to and from school for the first few days, and after that I took myself. <br>All the best from Edinburgh.

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• BE

  @belperflyer7419 · 1 month ago

  I was travelling to school by public transport (steam-hauled train after a 3/4 mile walk to the station) from the age of 11 back in 1951. &nbsp;I&apos;d been travelling on public transport adult-free for some years already. &nbsp;It wasn&apos;t unusual.

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• MA

  @MarianneWallbank · 1 month ago

  I was walking to school with my (younger) brother and sister and a small gang of friends when I was six

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