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[quote=Anonymous]What are you supposed to do when you have a kid school age?  Mine is still a toddler, and I don't yet know this first hand, but you must arrange for some time of extended daycare type of option for your school aged kids when you both work, no way around it.  Some people hire a part time nanny, others use some sort of camps where kids can be supervised until parents come back from work, what else to do?  The point of these activities seems to be able to ensure your kids are not alone and unsupervised when you are at work, right?

I grew up outside of US and my school years took place during the 1980s.  I grew up in a medium size city and spent some portion of my childhood in small towns as well, most households had both parents that worked and SAHM households were extremely rare.  Majority of kids were pretty much unsupervised after school would let out, most of us were just latchkey kids since the very early age, left to our own devices and able to serve ourselves the food left by our parents.  We took buses, trams, went to libraries, escaped to movies after school and pretty much could do whatever we wanted and get into all sorts of trouble.  I mean there were elementary school age kids by themselves, South Park style.   Some of the PPs describe their childhood experiences and I just wonder if that was the part of them just having much more freedom and being in general less supervised than kids are today.

I don't see this happening here and now. So, it's either SAHM or nanny households where kids can be back at home and free to roam the neighborhood, but still be supervised, or kids have to go to after school camps.  In the summer the situation is the same, if both parents work, kids must be supervised by someone, so it's either the nanny or the camp.  What's the point of being bitter about it?   If you are a SAHM, and you feel a little stuck in your current ghost town neighborhood, you must be able to venture out and meet other SAHMs or nannies and let your kids play with other kids in the area.  That is what I would do personally.  Because, you cannot recreate the spontaneity of the childhood experiences without letting your kids roam free and most parents just would not.  So, kids either play in their fenced in yards or go to camps.  And the tendency is for people wanting their own private play space, when this happens, there is less of street play, it's just how it is.  [/quote]

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