Leaving kids home alone

[mamajoan]

Yeah, the whole leaving kids alone thing has been big in the news lately. So it's kinda sad that I have to hesitate before posting this, and think, gee, is someone going to report me to Child Services because of what I'm about to post? But I did nothing wrong -- neither according to the laws of Massachusetts nor according to my own personal moral/

Comments

[veek]

Fabulous that it worked, super extra fabulous that you did it AND posted about it. Seriously, screw fear-based parenting.

[lbmango]

Did you ask them what they would do in the case of robbers trying to invade the house?

[mamajoan]

I did not, because I think that's too far down the list of likely emergencies to be worth worrying the kids about. We're on the second floor, after all.

[lbmango]

But then how will they know which traps to set for them? and where to tie the paint cans so that the swing correctly?

[azurelunatic]

Such charming simultaneity! "Jump out the window."

[downwardlashes]

We just had a little refresher talk about what to do in a fire too, and Zinnia argued with me that it was vitally important that she would take her stuffed animals with her. Ugh. She owns like 200 damn stuffed animals.