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[quote=Anonymous]We live in a suburb and, starting in middle school, let our kids start taking buses and the metro to get downtown. One of them needed to do so weekly for lessons and the other took a bus and transferred to another bus to get to a volunteer gig at a community center. My kids cooked family meals at that age, did their own laundry, etc. During the summers, they were allowed to walk to our community pool and hangout with friends without adults as soon as it was allowed (age 12). These things can happen in suburbia, you just have to think about it a little harder. Now my kids are in HS and got their licenses as soon as they could -- they can pretty much do everything themselves (make doctor's appointments, plan and get to rehearsals, fly alone to other cities for school visits, etc). They contribute to the cost of their car insurance and cell phone plans through part time jobs. Not saying everyone needs to do it this way, but we did and it's turned out to be a good thing in our home.[/quote]

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