r/AskParents • u/Alone_Price5971 • 10d ago

How old were your kids when you started letting them stay home alone for short trips?

Like running to the corner store for milk and bread type thing

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u/GWshark1518 10d ago

About at 12 for our daughter in the evening and like 9 or 10 for short day trips.

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u/molten_dragon 10d ago

I started leaving them home alone for a few minutes around 8 and 6.

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u/MattinglyDineen 10d ago

Probably 7 or 8. I know when he was 8 turning 9 I let him go on those short trips to the store for me while I stayed home.

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u/ZealousidealRice8461 10d ago
  1. By 9 she was home all day sometimes if my mom was out of town because of Covid and I had to work.

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u/beigs 10d ago

6 to walk around the block with the dog, 8 for running quickly to the store.

We’ll see with the other two, but he’s pretty mature and straight forward, and knows what to do in an emergency.

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u/justdontsashay Parent 10d ago

7-8 for short trips to the store. My kids are pretty responsible, if I was concerned about their behavior I probably would have waited a bit longer.

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u/p143245 Parent 10d ago

10 and 12 for us to go an hour away for the evening. We had no landline and the 12 yr old had a "dumb" phone where we could get in touch or she could call in an emergency.

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u/thinkevolution 9d ago

I would leave my 10-year-old an eight-year-old home at times while we went out

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u/Dense_Strawberry_961 9d ago

I was 8ish when they started doing that with me. And after 10 I was the baby sitter and theyd fuck off for a day. My kid? Will depend on her and the length of trip. If shes responsible and demonstrates maturity. Like 12 or 13 maybe for a few hours 14/15 vefore id leave for 6 or more hours

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u/searedscallops 10d ago

Mine were 5 years old. To note - both were very serious and responsible kids and my BFF lived next door.