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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Age 7.  I do get annoyed at neighbors who let their 4 and 5 year olds play without supervision.  We're in a cul-de-sac, and a lot of the kid gatherings end up right outside our house, and we end up dealing with the tears and disagreements that inevitably occur when these little ones aren't being supervised by their parents.  In reality, they really aren't unsupervised, the parents are just transferring their responsibility off to the closest neighbor to where the kids are playing or whoever happens to be working from home or working in the yard that day.  I see the kids being able to manage themselves better the closer to 7 years old they get, so for me that's the right age for the average kid.[/quote]
This. I have witnessed the packs of 8 year olds run across the street to follow each other without looking, and as a result, I am often the parent that ends up tagging along. To the parents who say their kids are fine...shadow them one day and you will see all of the dangerous and destructive things they do. It is a huge bummer I end having to be the babysitter, but I would never forgive myself if someone got hit. [/quote]

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