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How does the OT feel about latch key kids?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:42 pm
From kindergarten on, I was home by myself after getting off of the bus for 1-2 hours until my folks got home from work.
Lived in a good neighborhood with lots of kids my age & older, many also latch key kids.
Had to call my mom at work when I got home to let her know I was there & if I was going out to play with friends or staying in. Had to do chores like the trash, put away the dishes, etc.
Started watching my younger brother at 10 when he was 5 & in kindergarten. That just carried on.
All was good.
What about you guys?
Lived in a good neighborhood with lots of kids my age & older, many also latch key kids.
Had to call my mom at work when I got home to let her know I was there & if I was going out to play with friends or staying in. Had to do chores like the trash, put away the dishes, etc.
Started watching my younger brother at 10 when he was 5 & in kindergarten. That just carried on.
All was good.
What about you guys?
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Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:43 pm to forever lsu30
It's the OT, so...
TRASHY
TRASHY
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:43 pm to forever lsu30
Another tool of the socialist left.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:44 pm to forever lsu30
Don't even know what that is.
eta:
After googling, I was apparently a latch key kid for some of my life. Who knew I was a part of an awesomely named group.
eta:
After googling, I was apparently a latch key kid for some of my life. Who knew I was a part of an awesomely named group.
This post was edited on 1/27/16 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:44 pm to Tiger Ryno
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Another tool of the socialist left.
How so?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:45 pm to forever lsu30
I was one.
Thanks goodness I was never snatched up by a pedo while walking home.
Thanks goodness I was never snatched up by a pedo while walking home.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:45 pm to forever lsu30
That was me too. We used to have daily football games in the street in front of our houses when we got home from school until our parents got home and made dinner 
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:46 pm to forever lsu30
Me and my siblings were latch keyers. I'm sure where you live plays a large part in the smartness of it.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:46 pm to forever lsu30
Definitely trashy.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:47 pm to forever lsu30
I think people got to do what people got to do & frick what others think.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:48 pm to ksayetiger
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How so?
Anti family
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:49 pm to forever lsu30
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How does the OT feel about latch key kids?
They taste like chicken.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:51 pm to Ostrich
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We used to have daily football games in the street in front of our houses when we got home from school until our parents got h
Yep. It wasn't really latch key. More of an hour of whiffle ball before mom got home. With other kid's moms around.
This post was edited on 1/27/16 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:51 pm to forever lsu30
Never knew there was a term for that, but I was one pretty much from 5th grade on.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:55 pm to forever lsu30
I was a latch key kid. I'd come home and knock out my chores in an hour (kitchen, living room, bathrooms) and be out the door until the street lights came on. It was glorious. CPS would take my kids if I let them do the same thing today.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:55 pm to forever lsu30
Definitely did that from 6th grade on.
Plenty of similarly aged kids in the neighborhood, we'd all be out playing for a while before most parents got home.
Plenty of similarly aged kids in the neighborhood, we'd all be out playing for a while before most parents got home.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:56 pm to forever lsu30
I wasn't a latch key kid until Jr. High.
Kindergarten though? WTF?
Kindergarten though? WTF?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:56 pm to forever lsu30
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How does the OT feel about latch key kids?
Poor people problems. My mom didn't work growing up but we still had a nanny.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:56 pm to forever lsu30
Freerange kid?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 4:57 pm to forever lsu30
I was but not in kindergarten. That seems kind of young.
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