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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basically never. [b]They are not allowed to do nothing for huge chunks of time. A day or two here or there? Sure.[/b] But for weeks on end? No.[/quote]

so at what age do you leave kids home without a sitter in the summer? [/quote]

Depends on the kid, not the season, but[b] they aren’t staying home all day,, multiple days in a row, ever. [/b][/quote]

so at 16 you still hire a sitter for kids?  I mean at some point "kids" are left home alone. when is that point?  Guidelines posted above suggest after age 13. [/quote]

No, but I don't leave them home alone ALL DAY for MULTIPLE DAYS IN A ROW. Can't you see that? I said it twice.[/quote]

I am not leaving town for the month, just going to work from 8-4.

So full-time working parent with a 16 yr old should hire a sitter so they aren't home alone from 8-4 during the summer?

Seriously question, at what age do kids not have a sitter in the summer? [/quote]

If they are by themselves and not responsible for anyone else you could probably have an 11 to 14 year old without a sitter depending on their maturity level and also their temperament. 
I was home alone from the age of 10 fast forward from like 3:00 until 6:00 every day after school and it was not a good situation. I was very mature but I had to be mature and that was the start of needing to take on more responsibility than was age appropriate and because I was mature and could handle it my parents put more and more and more on me including the care of my younger siblings at certain points for hours and hours at a time days and days on end. Including baby and toddler aged siblings. 
While you are not doing that asking what age a kid cannot have a sitter is asking about 1 kid. The more kids you have the more problems arise. [/quote]

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