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I think I was like 11 when I first got left home alone , only for an hour as my brother who I was 16 at the time came back from high school a bit later
Do people really remember these details? And would being left for an hour really count? I was probably left alone for an hour on quite a few occasions, when my mom went grocery shopping, say, but I wouldn't recall at what age.
I don't remember either. I don't even remember for my own kids. My youngest is 12 and I feel like I've been leaving him alone for short periods (up to two hours) for at least a couple of years.
5 or 6, but a neighbor was close that could check in on me. I was an independent child that preferred to be left home to my own devices than have to be watched by someone.
The summer I turned 10, my younger sister (7) and I did not have a sitter while my parents worked. We usually watched TV in the mornings, and then rode our bikes to the local community pool and stayed there all afternoon. Sometimes we played with other neighbor kids in the creek.
i think i would be around 11 or so. Hard to remember when, but think that while mum did a quick run to the shops and the like. She returned to school to earn her degree when i was 13, and often was on my own coming home from school until she came home in the evenings.
My brother and I walked home from school and were alone every day. We were 7 and 8. I was babysitting other kids by 11, I better have known how to be left alone.
My daughter is 9 1/2 and we leave her alone for short periods only because we're told it's now against the law if someone feels you've abandoned your child home alone and they feel the need to call the police. With that, starting in 3rd grade, the school district allows kids to walk home from the bus stop on their own, and some of those are probably heading to an empty house.
We live in a different time, and now it's seen as bad to leave kids home alone to learn responsibility of not answering the door when someone knocks (*eyeroll*).
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