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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if it's any consolation, my 10 y.o. will be doing a latchkey trial for about 2 hours at a time this year (if it turns out to be a horrible idea, it'll change). We are doing this because the only aftercare game in town is a program where they can't do their homework (I know, right?), and the homework load is gettting serious.

The rules include a phone call upon arrival or the cops get called, and a heavy duty homework check once I get home. My child is up for it and wants to do it. I've made it REALLY clear that if it doesn't work, all hell will break loose.

I'm not exactly comfortable with it, but the options are slim.[/quote]

My DD and another girl were walking home from the bus [1 long block] and were trailed by and approached by some one. Tried to get them to come to the car and slowly shadowed them while driving.  They always walked home but that stopped after this incident.  So the answer is NO on the walking and coming home to an empty house.   I would not leave younger than 12 alone while running short errands.  My level of caution increased based on this and other things.

The HW is not worth the regular exposure of 2 hours plus transit for a 10 year old.[/quote]

I'm the one who wrote about the helicoptering.  You know, I was once walking on my own street with my older brother when we noticed a car driving VEERRRYYY slowly near us.  He got his house key out, and when he yelled "Three!" we both broke into a run, sprinted home, and he unlocked the door, we hustled in, locked the door behind us, and laughed. I am not even sure if we told our mother.  It's entirely possible the person was just looking for a specific house number. Your DD would be smart to know that if someone is following her in a car while she's walking, she can turn and run in the other direction - it takes a car a long time to turn around to continue following her. [/quote]

I was the potential abductor once. I was driving slowly along a street looking for a house. There were two boys walking along the sidewalk and they kept looking at me. I realized one of them was my friend's son and without thinking I opened the widow and called out to him. Both boys ran and hid behind a tree. I stopped the car to get out to say - Hey Eric, it is Dan's mom, do you know where Billy lives??...and him and the other kid both took off at 100mph down the sidewalk. That is when I realized they thought I was out to get them!! I called his mom when I got home to let her know I wasn't actually trying to kidnap her son and apologize for scaring him and his friend. [/quote]

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