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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Age 8 I would be ok with now and again. 
Every day though , maybe 10. 
My 12yo has a friend we dropped off at home ( alone) last week after an outing and she couldn’t get in the house. The code on the door was jammed or something. I ended up keeping her 2 extra hours. 
Make sure your kid knows what to do if where to go if they can’t get in for some reason. 
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Really? Was it extra hot or is this a bad neighborhood? When our child got locked out at a younger age they just waited in a quiet spot.[/quote]

Are you seriously saying that some ahole adult dropped your child off without making sure she could get into the house?  Or worse, knew she couldn’t get in the house and left the child there anyway?   What kind of uncivilized people do you associate with?  [/quote]

At 12 no way. They just drop and go. Kid was taking the public bus and metro by herself by then. Even at 10 parents would drop off without making sure a child could get in their own house. I guess it's just a different type of neighborhood or maybe it's these particular kids. They know that if they need anything they can just go find a neighbor or walk across the street to a friend's. The houses aren't super close together but they are not these huge houses either so it's not like they were being dropped off in a place without civilization.[/quote]

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