# Letting my 11 year old stay home alone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letting-my-11-year-old-stay-home-alone/461252>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 25, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letting-my-11-year-old-stay-home-alone/461252 "2008-08-25T22:03:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letting-my-11-year-old-stay-home-alone/461252/41 "2008-08-27T06:03:31Z")

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[QUOTE=mlerose]

I was left (alone) to babysit my younger sisters, ages 7 and 3, when I was 10. I was probably left home alone (sick) when I was 8 or 9. I was babysitting other people’s children by the time I was 11.  
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OMG, are you me? That’s exactly what I came in here to post (though when I was 10 my sisters were 8 and 3). And like you, I was also babysitting other people’s children by age 11.

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**Author:** ![greatshakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@greatshakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatshakes)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letting-my-11-year-old-stay-home-alone/461252/42 "2008-08-29T02:45:21Z")

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[QUOTE=eleanorigby]  
He knows how to work the stove and oven (but prefers the microwave). 😉  
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Sounds to me like you’ve got nothing to worry about! 😉

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