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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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.[/b]  [/quote]

Yes, that is the fact that I think will get her in trouble.  Not that she left the kids at home for 45 minutes but that she left them to walk the dogs out in the street.[/quote]

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