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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our neighbor's kid has done it since age 7.5 - good kid who seems comfortable, but seems very inadvisable. I agree with PPs who says doing this regular in middle school is a no-no (I was a kid who was good, but got in trouble with this). Maybe high school, and even then, require some type of activity many times per week?[/quote] Well, my son started staying home alone in sixth grade. I was single at the time, and our one local aftercare option was kind of terrible, so I was relieved. Also, the school work was getting more challenging at that age, and he really needed the unstructured time to decompress. He became a happier kid when he was no longer in the aftercare program. Starting out, we had a lot of structure/trial run rules, with the ever looming (but honestly kind of empty) threat of returning to much-hated aftercare. I'm happy to report that he has turned out to be a very with it young man. [/quote]
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