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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All kids are different. My older child was fine with being left home alone for 30-60 minutes at 9 years old, while my younger now 10 year old gets panicky at the idea of being left home alone even for a few minutes.

There’s no way I would have left either to get themselves to school alone at that age.[/quote]

Yup, it's kid-specific.  We have 2 older kids close in age, and this would have been fine for them by the time the youngest was age 9 and the oldest age 11 because they felt more comfortable as a twosome.  About that time they started biking to school together because they didn't like the bus.  But the 9-year old probably would have felt too anxious to do it alone (and us too).  We have a younger child, now 9-years old, and she's sometimes home alone for a half hour while we do a drop off or pickup for an older kid or an errand, but she's nervous being home alone longer than that.  Combined with trusting her to be the one to lock up the house and watch for traffic walking to the bus stop -- given that she like many 9-year olds can still be a bit flighty -- I'd be uneasy leaving her for the morning.  I expect by age 10, and certainly 11, the tide will turn.[/quote]

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