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[quote=Anonymous]I think kids need the experience of being able to walk around independently but it needs to be balanced with safety. I see nothing wrong with letting an 8+ yr old go to the next aisle in the grocery store to pick up one product -- if they have specific instructions to walk straight there and back, if they don’t return in x minutes, you’re walking to that aisle etc. After all, if they started screaming, you’d hear them if you were in the next aisle. Not to mention, I'd do this while the store was relatively busy, as there would likely be plenty of adults like the posters here who would notice a content 8 yr old picking up a box of cereal one moment who then started screaming as he was carried against his will; a criminal would not choose such an aisle where he’d have to navigate through the bunch of people/carts to get the kid out.  In contrast, to let your kid wander in some other department of a store or hang out in the kids section of B&N alone while you are off getting coffee on the other side of the floor is insane. I also find that certain sections of WMT/Target are always pretty empty -- automotive, toys -- esp in the middle of the week, gardening, fitting rooms which are often way in the back etc. Someone could easily wander off with a child there and be unnoticed, as the one shopper who is absentmindedly wandering the automotive aisles may not even notice, may assume that it’s just a kid throwing a tantrum with their dad, or may not want to get involved being that they’re all alone.[/quote]

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