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[quote=Anonymous]I'll be leaving my 10 and 7 year olds home alone some days. (In VA, no laws- just guidelines). My situation is a little different because it will only be for 2-3 hour stretches a couple times a week if I have to go in for a meeting. I am going to try other options first, like finding a babysitter (but high school kids have their own DL, college kids are gone, SAHMs have their own kids home and don't want extra exposure) or seeing if they can go to a close friend's house for the day. Especially when the weather is good and they can mainly be outside I think this will work.

We have a front door camera, a nanny cam, a landline phone with preprogrammed numbers, and a grandparent that lives less than a mile away available in an emergency, and several neighbors on our block who will be home with their kids. But for exposure reasons we aren't comforatable asking the grandparent to do babysitting either. I mean, we're both working outside the home.

Normal safety nets and childcare options ARE NOT available right now. People need to wake up and realize that many kids will be left home alone earlier than they should be. [/quote]

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