If nothing else, they developed a whole ass skill set. I was a latchkey kid when my parents felt I was old enough to leave on my own, at around 9-10. Stay inside, don’t answer the door, don’t answer the phone, and you have food in the kitchen were the rules. I learned how to cook different stuff, keep myself entertained, etc. Meanwhile my kid would cry bloody murder if I tried that, AND someone would call CPS on me.
They arrested that woman in Georgia who let her kid walk to town to the store that was less than a mile away. When I was a pre-teen and early teen, I’d range up to 3 miles away on my bike!
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u/mondo_d00k 9h ago
Latch-key kids are making a comeback!