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[quote=Anonymous]We live in a small neighborhood with a decent number of elementary school aged kids. Parents of younger kids tend to be outside when their kids are, until say seven or so, and parents of older kids aren't always. Our daughter is eight so I let her run free in the neighborhood.

It tends not to be all day on weekends, but it's often several hours in the evening (say 5-9pm with a break for dinner). I find this a little annoying, because it makes it harder to plan dinner, but I make it work. We skip showers on the night the kids really want to play late.

Doorbell ringing is fine with me, another kid following mine inside and hanging out happens and is also fine with me. I'll shoot the other parents a text in those cases just to let them know. We don't serve meals to visiting random kids, but we do have snacks if kids ask.

If a kid is around when we start to eat we send them home. If the doorbell rings when my kid is ready for bed, I just say that. No big deal.

There's some minor annoyances with this kind of neighborhood, but the good completely outweighs any bad. Unstructured, lightly supervised time with other kids should be a big part of childhood.[/quote]

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