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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  I left my kids alone at that age in the summers while DH and I worked.

They had some camps mixed in, but mostly it was unstructured time alone.

It’s how I grew up in the early 80s, running the streets sans cell phone and calling Mom at work repeatedly when bored.  [/quote]

Kids weren’t sitting on an iPhone and social media and nefarious websites all day long in the 80s.

We found almost zero kids home in summers -either on vacation, in camps or sent to grandparents so nobody around to play with in the neighborhood. I have a 19 and 16 year old.  When they were younger o would save most of my annual leave for summer—think 4 weeks of my 5.2 weeks.  We’d do a 2-week vacation and fill the weeks I wasn’t home in with sports camps —about 3-4 weeks.  Luckily my sons were just 2 years apart and loved the exact same sports so one drop off and pick up.

My biggest concern would be wasting time on the iPhone—we had to take our 16 year old’s phone away at certain points of time last summer. And luckily he had a summer job walking distance from our house- ice cream shop. [/quote]

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