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Old October 25th 03, 03:45 PM
toypup
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Default How old should children be before being left alone?


"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.