"toypup" wrote in message
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"Banty" wrote in message
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Heh - I remember being left in the house alone at age eight for awhile
while she
took my brother to the doctor and she took my little 2 year old sister
with her.
I liked the solitude. My mother had started laundry. The washer load
became
unbalanced, and before I paid attention to what the banging sound was,
the
washer had "walked" out from the rocking far enough to break the hoses.
*Then*
I ran to neighbors for help, but the house flooded and my Mom yelled at
me
for
not turing off the main water line. I looked her "main water what???"
:-)

This would be my reasoning for not leaving a child that young alone.
Though
some are mature enough to not cause mischief, they lack the life
experience
to handle some unexpected disasters. Had you been older, you might have
known where the main water line was, from life experience.

But the house would have flooded even if she hadn't been left home. She
probably reduced the amount of flooding caused, by running to the neighbor.
It sounds like leaving her home helped save the house, it didn't cause the
flood.