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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5708514, member: 722"] Part of the additional safety comes with a cost... My 9 year old, for the first time ever, stayed home alone for a while. It was half an hour while his mom dropped his sister off at birthday party. When I was nine, my best friends and I would have been miles away and hours since a parent last knew where we were. My friends had a "clubhouse" in an abandoned house. One day we found a strange man sleeping in that house, squatting for the night. I shudder to imagine my son in a strange house with a stranger unattended. The independence we learned was extremely valuable. But my kids are definitely safer... We are trying to find a happy medium of free range in the neighborhood, with other neighborhood kids. [/QUOTE]