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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a kid 8 year olds were getting off the bus and going home to an empty house until 6 or after. You're saying 8-12 year olds (even 6-8) need so much supervision now that a parent working from home can't pick them up from school and work for another two hours and should be expected to find childcare at that time? My 8 year old generally just stays home on the random day off days and entertains himself. Other than taking a longer lunch to actually sit and interact rather than eating at my desk it's really no different. It'd be more disruptive to commute to day off camp options and be offline at peak meeting times on my team. Yes there are differences for the 3 and unders. [/quote]

+1 and I'll do you one better: I and many of my friends would go to our parents' workplaces after school and be expected to read or do homework until they were done, or even asked to help out. I remember filing papers at my dad's office or helping my mom load materials for classes she was teaching into the car. I also remember sitting and reading books in the corner while they took meetings or calls or got paperwork done. No one walked into my parents' workplaces and freaked out because there was a child there. No one was like "OMG, you can't do this! Why don't you have reliable childcare for your 9 year old! So unprofessional."

In fact, on more than one occasion, their clients and students would note that I seemed like a responsible kid, would I be interested in babysitting their young children some afternoon for extra cash?

So I don't get what the big deal is about my elementary kid doing homework and playing in her room while I finish my workday.[/quote]

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