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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would leave the 11 year old alone, but not with a 5 year old. [/quote]

I was babysitting a next door neighbor’s infant when I was 12.[/quote]

That's nice mee-maw.[/quote]

I’m 43!

. . . And my kids are 12 10 and 5[/quote]

40yo here. 12 was a very common age for babysitting when I grew up. My kids are younger, but I assumed it still was.[/quote]

I agree. I was babysitting young kids in the neighborhood at 12. I also have a brother 12 years younger than me and I was left with him all the time, including when he was an infant. [/quote]

That is pretty different from a 5 and 11 year old.

I was also babysitting at age 12, but my current 10 year old is nowhere near responsible enough for that, and I don't see it dramatically changing in that amount of time so its very kid dependent.

Also being left with a sibling where therr are sibling dynamics at play is different than a paying babysitter job.[/quote]

I'm the PP. At 12, I regularly babysat young kids in the neighborhood. I also was left home with my brother who was an infant, and my 2 other siblings ages 10 & 7, pretty frequently. I don't think that's terribly different from an 11yo being left with a 5yo sibling. I agree it depends on the kids, though. I am Gen X and was used to fending for myself from an early age.[/quote]

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