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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids can get up themselves with an alarm clock, get themselves ready for school at any age, but cannot be home alone until the age of 13 Before that you can leave them home alone when you go to the grocery store, but they should have before school and after school care That is the law[/quote] Where is that the law? Not Maryland, where the law says that when you're 8 you can be home for short periods of time during daylight hours. OP, I also have an inflexible job as far as start time. The year my kids were in 6th and 3rd, I started leaving them home alone in the mornings when DH wasn't home. Before that we had a babysitter. But I'd get them up, and dressed, and at the table eating breakfast before I left, so they just had to grab their backpacks, and let the door close and lock behind them before they walked to school. I think that I could have left them alone the year previously, but I didn't. [/quote]
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