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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something I don’t think has been mentioned here is that the 12 year olds in large/low resource families are not only babysitting their siblings, cousins, and neighbors especially in working poor neighborhoods. Can you imagine the time suck?

Plus the chores, after school activities, and homework?

Theirs a difference in having the said 12 year old as a date night/going-out sitter vs aftercare. In poorer families it’s often the later. [/quote]

I don't know if I'm crazy here, or if you are.  
I grew up UMC, but I babysat my younger siblings after school when I was a teenager.  I wasn't doing crafts or enriching activities with them.  We had a snack (everyone got their own), and watched The Simpsons.  If I had a bunch of homework, then I worked on my homework while they watched TV or played outside.   I'm not at all sure that I would have done much different if I had been an only child.

What was everyone else doing after school in eighth grade?  [/quote]

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