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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least two of us have posted about how our parents left us home for 10-15 minutes while they took siblings to some activity or another and we've been completely ignored. Both I and the other PP posted about how scared we were, and she said she never told her mom how scared she was and I didn't either. My mom would say "I'm dropping X off for practice and will be back in 10 minutes. Stand here by the door and wait for me." and I remember standing by the door scared to death that someone would come knock on the door and I wouldn't know what to do, or the phone would ring and I would have to answer it, but I was too young to be able to express this fear to my mother. I can't imagine putting my 7 year old in that situation.

Shame on you all for thinking about "oh no, there wouldn't be an emergency" or "Oh but Larla is so independent she would be fine" and not actually really thinking about your children's feelings. [/quote]

BY the way, I'm a child of the 80s. My mom would routinely kick me out of the house to go play with neighborhood kids, and I certainly played in the middle of the street with other kids or even out in the yard all by myself at this age, so this is not about fostering independence. And I'm not saying that I was traumatized by it and it affected the rest of my life, it didn't, I'm totally fine, but I really still do have vivid memories of sitting on the stairway landing inside the front door and staring out the window waiting for my mom to come home, I was SO SCARED.[/quote]

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