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| I would not leave toddlers or pre-schoolers alone, not even for a minute. At that age you never know, kids can do crazy stuff.
But children aged 10 is a different story. I used to stay alone all day, cook dinner and clean house waiting for my parents to come back from work when I was ten. Children that age worked in factories and in the fields not so long ago -- they actually still do in many parts of the world. I certainly hope that I will trust my kid not to jump out of the window or set the house on fire when they are that age or close. | |
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It is amazing how life and the parameters have changed.
I was 7 when I used to walk home from school. I used to stand on a crate to open the front door to be able to get the key in the door to open it. My sister, 4 years older, would arrive home from secondary one and a half hours later. My parents used to go on holiday without us for a week when she was 16 and I was 12 and we loved it.
Now children are supposedly not even safe alone for 10 minutes and yet reading the newspapers they appear to be terrorising adults, having sex and getting pregnant and doing class A drugs at 12.