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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At what age did you let your kid be home alone after walking home from the bus after school, about 30-60 minutes? [/quote]

Umm go in the elementary school forum pls.

Walking home from bus stop 
to a parent at home? 1st grade

Walking home using pin pad garage and parent not home for 30min? 9yrs old

Weren’t you all latch key kids. Stop coddling your kids 
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Ummm no everyone wasn’t a latchkey kid.   I know the mothers who don’t work at my daughter’s school and they are home for their elementary school kids.  My daughter went home occasionally to an empty house starting in I think 6th grade.   I just don’t think it’s good for a younger child to come home to an empty house too often.

We never locked our doors so the kids didn’t have keys.   The housekeeper accidentally locked the door once and my daughter called me, locked out.   It was a frigid day with a wind chill factor of zero.   I felt so bad but was able to reach a neighbor to take her in.    I would have felt worse if she been 7 or 8.   [/quote]

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