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I would say 10 at the very oldest. latchkey life baybeeeee

edit: oh and my slightly younger brother was there but I guess it was a "team work makes the dream work" situation

our much older brother watched us sometimes like if the parents would be gone overnight or something.

We were latchkey kids a couple days a week, not sure how long we were alone...prob an hour or less, after the bus dropped us off. I was....I think 6 or 7, so my 2 sisters were 5 (and I was 7-9)...that was back in like '94-95 and that would NOT fly these days. We would stay home alone if sick, too. My parents both worked, and my mom did come home mid-day. She was a school bus driver, so the driver would look out for us as well. We were out in the suburbs and had strict instructions to stay locked in the house. I still have my original house key from that time, so I guess I was a fairly responsible child.

I personally would not leave a kid under 10/11 alone (and I am not a parent so I would not at all!!) but I get why my parents did. Plain old gaps in childcare.

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My parents would go on weekend vacations and leave me at about 7ish to watch my little sister alone all weekend. They gave us money and I would order us pizza. My parents had 5 kids and I was kid #4. I helped babysit and raise my nieces and nephew since about that age to 19 while she was working. I started leaving my own daughter at home alone about that same age too in order to just go out and get a few errands done or to go hunting for several hours.

Honestly, I feel it's up to each individual family, but a good age is around 7/8 in my opinion. Just teach them to leave the doors locked and don't answer the door no matter what. Even if it's the cops.

i was left alone for hours starting no later than age 9, and was also tasked with taking care of my brother, age 5. it was honestly better than the shitty babysitters we could afford (one locked me outside with no water, another drove us to the park and left us there all day), but i think it was not amazing for my development to have to also care for my brother.

i definitely also babysat other kids starting at age 10. looking back, all i can think is what in the why damn shit would you do that

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I go the opposite way. My stepmother was such a distrustful cow that she refused to leave any of us home alone. I think I was around 14 before I ever spent any significant amount of time at the house with no one else there. However, when I was 10 or 11, I lived with my mom for a brief period, and she had no problem with me being home alone for a few hours between school getting out and her coming home from work.

9 or 10. Mom was at work, brothers were probably getting laid, dad went out drinking. 🤷‍♂️

I was the youngest so until my brothers were both away at college, I usually got left with them or my live in grandma but I started babysitting at 11-usually for an hour or two at a time. I think I was about 12 or so when both of my brothers were gone to school so my parents would occasionally leave me alone for a few hours so they could go gamble or something.

I wanna say I was like 8-9, but being taken care of by my slightly old brother.

Only child, and I was about 12 when my parents ran out of options, nobody would do it. To everyone's surprise I gradually got milder the longer I was allowed to keep to myself. Sometimes crappy childcare is worse than none.

I would say probably 11-12 as that's when my older sister went off to college, and with both parents working I would have been home alone after school until 5:30ish.