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The thing about leaving underage kids home alone or with an underage babysitter is that if something terrible goes wrong, it becomes an issue of "parental neglect". The vast majority of the time, nothing goes wrong and all is fine. But why take the chance kwim? Anyway, I think when mine get to be around age 12, I'd be ok with letting them be home if it were a short time for me to be out - like a trip to the grocery store etc. Mine are still young - age 7 and under so I have a few years yet. I'm still struggling with younger issues, like do I allow them to leave their classrooms and meet me out in front of the school. Once they leave the classroom, they're on their own. So what age is ok...when are you over-doing it? My eldest, he has pretty severe attentional issues so I worry that he'd just take off. But you cant know these things, you cant know how responsible your child is - until you take a deeeeeeep breath and let them go and see how they do. I think that this is the most scary part of parenting, kwim?
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