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I wholeheartedly recommend Lenore Skenazy's book. It's funny. We let the kid stay home when we go running or whatever. I've let her be by herself in the house for, like, 90 minutes while I was out dropping off a package. She has at least three different ways to get ahold of a half-dozen adults. For her to not be in communication she would need to lose an iPad and a laptop or have wifi go out, at which point there are two or three neighbor kids she could run to. She's eight. And we're terrible parents for doing that to her. I was latchkey from kindergarten onward. No one was home until 6:30pm. Most of my friends were in a similar situation. Often times we'd just go get into trouble and no one said a fuckin' thing.