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Re: what age should a child be left in on their own??
I suppose a lot depends on how long you are going to be away and how responsible the child is. When I was a single parent I couldn't have taken both of my children to school as they went in opposite directions and I don't drive so the oldest just went off on the bus and the youngest walked down to the lollypop man because my health condition would have made it very difficult for me to walk back up the hill if I'd gone down with her. Maybe some people would say I shouldn't have been left with them and they should have been taken into care but most other children that age made their own way to school too. When Em was 11 we left her to her own devices in the hotel on holiday when she wanted to use the computer. We also left Mimi as a baby with a 12 year old daughter of a friend of ours who had experience of younger brothers and sisters and was more mature and sensible at 12 than some 16 year olds are. There are 16/17 year olds I wouldn't dream of trusting as babysitters.
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