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Integrity and Karma's avatar

All y'all who were 'latch key kids' rise your paws! * raises mine*

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Dr Jen | Syringa Wellness's avatar

Babysat 3 kids under age 5 (unrelated to me) for a week, including overnight, when I was 17 then did it again when I was 18. Excellent birth control.

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Tonetta's avatar

Oh too funny. My experience too! Babysat my nephew at 14 and no sooner had mom and dad left or he started crying! 4 months old. Not to be stopped. Cured me once and for all.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

had a stay at home mom

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

My mom worked for a few years on and off in the 60's but mostly stayed at home too. She and my dad agreed on that, 1. to raise me the way they wanted 2. my dad worked hard and long hours and someone had to do everything at home.

We were truly blessed.

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Masqueesha's avatar

I grew up in the latch key generation, but I worked for the family business 6 days a week and worked our farm on Sundays. Throw school on top of that. I bitched about it 24/7, but I wouldn't change a thing.

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MyCovidBubble's avatar

Paws up. Everyone I grew up with was a latch key, too.

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

My parents 1st house, built in the early 1900's, had a milk box. This was basically a window big enough for a gallon of milk and maybe eggs. There was a small, not too thick wooden door on both inside and outside.

On a few occasions, when we all left the house without a key and since I was a small skinny kid, it was me who was always hoisted up to crawl in to the house via the milk box and open the door.

Gee, I could have grown up to be a cat burglar!

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Blue Electric Storm's avatar

So sad!!

I was asking around the cul-de-sac of families for someone to be guardian of my eight year old ..(.daughter, boys, calm down, females know they aren't full grown at eight....) for two hours after school.

That's when a real dingbat woman said to me: "Oh, just leave her the key. Don't you know? That's how we raise kids now, it's called "latchkey kids".

Thirty-five years later and I'm still.....??????? WTF?

Yep. The "tell a vision" had propagandized that as a ...wait for it... a"trend".

And that's all they had to do to make it real. Fucking Disneyland unreality. At least I know why near every kid now is so familiar with sexual abuse.........as well as every other kind of trash

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yup. And I had two younger brothers to take care off. And laundry and meals.

I was well prepared for college...lol...

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John Tancsik's avatar

I was left home unsupervised for 8-10 hours per day from the time I was 9 years old. With my sister who was 18 months younger.

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