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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zero minutes. Too young. Started at age 11. [/quote] +1. We started allowing ours to stay home for 30 minutes while we walked the dog when DS was 10. The graduated to 30 minutes trips to the store. He's 11 now and we only leave him alone in the house maybe twice a month and never for more than 45 minutes - and he knows how to call us on the landline if needed. We could leave him alone longer but don't do so. That being said, I was the latch-key kid of a single parent who worked off hours often and I was frequently left alone beginning around 9 years old - many times for an entire evening or most of the day if it was a weekend. So that's another opposite extreme. I turned out ok, but wouldn't put my own child through that. It definitely affected my social skills and mental well being.[/quote]
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