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With the start of this school year my 11-year-old son is now officially a latch key kid. He goes to school and leaves school by himself (mostly he walks with friends but you get the idea).
I've had no problem leaving him alone while I went to the store or the like for the last year or so. Starting this summer past, I encouraged him to take Public transit by himself to my office downtown and spending more time at home alone.
This is the end of the first week of school and all seems to be proceeding just fine.
As for me, I started taking public transit by myself and going to and from school (which required that I take public transit) at the age of 8 or 9. Of course this was in the late 70s.
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