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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I live in a relatively nice NoVA neighborhood and I leave y rising 4th grader alone. I was basically the last in my group of friends to do so. Maybe people don't tell people like you because you are crazy helicopter-y judge mom.[/quote]

Would you leave your rising 4th grader alone in charge of his third grade sibling while walking 2 large dogs in a beach neighborhood that isn't where they live? For 2 hours+? Many people are saying 5 miles up Rt 1 would take about an hour- and how long was she planning to stay before the cops arrested her? There's a lot more here than leaving your 4th grader in his house while you run to Giant.[/quote]

+1 Exactly.[/quote]

I would not leave a 3rd and 4th grader alone while walking 2 dogs.  I have allowed my kids when they were of a similar age to walk our dogs down our beach rental street and back while I was home and watching from the balcony.  And that was after I had been up and down the street numerous times with the dogs knowing which houses had dogs and whether the dogs were friendly.

If I had left my kids at the house, I would have put the dogs in their crates.  I would not want or expect the kids to walk the dogs while I was gone or let them outside while I was gone.  Not at those ages.

If the mom left those kids knowing that they would be outside walking the dogs that was very poor judgement.  That was too much responsibility for such young kids.  [/quote]

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