At what age would you leave kids alone while you holiday

Kim_kim

Comms69 wrote: »

19?!

Sorry, no, that’s a parental failure.

74jax wrote: »

Did you mean 16 and hit the wrong key on the numerical keyboard?

Silvertabby wrote: »

My thoughts too. At 19, I was serving in the WRAF !

We had just moved to a new house, in a rural semi rural location.
She’d never stayed on her own before and it was a brand new area where we knew no one.
Her college was really difficult to get to from our location, but easy by car. They drove her & collected her, as I did.
For the second week she got fed up of living with them & said she felt fine to stay the next week on her own.
A friend came to stay with her & she drove them both to college.

Spendless

Kim_kim wrote: »

There’s a difference between jetting off on holiday and going to work or out for the night.

There isn't if they're 19! They're legally an adult and can join the armed forces, get married or be sent to prison without you being able to do anything about it.

Loz01

There was a recent episode of 999 Whats Your Emergency where someone had left a 15 year old lad on his own to go on holiday and someone had phoned the police and they said he shouldn't have been left and then phoned the mother who was abroad! Basically told her she was wrong, he couldnt fend for himself and he hadn't been going to school. So obv police WILL do something if they're informed.

Comms69

Loz01 wrote: »

There was a recent episode of 999 Whats Your Emergency where someone had left a 15 year old lad on his own to go on holiday and someone had phoned the police and they said he shouldn't have been left and then phoned the mother who was abroad! Basically told her she was wrong, he couldnt fend for himself and he hadn't been going to school. So obv police WILL do something if they're informed.

They’ll make a phone call?...

YORKSHIRELASS

We have just left our 19 year old for a week while we were abroad (he was left last year too). He was definitely ready for us to come home, sent me a message on the last day saying the house was too big!

I wouldnt leave a child under 16 but it does depend on the circumstances I suppose - we have family nearby who could be there in 15 minutes if there was a problem. Of course someone would have to tell them there was a problem ....

Last year we left our boys 16 and 18 home alone for two or three weekends. We did tell the neighbours, not so that they could keep an eye on things but more that if there was noise the neighbours knew the boys were home alone and could go and word them! The boys were fine and the house was immaculate when we came home so it was a good experience for everyone.

Red-Squirrel_2

Comms69 wrote: »

They’ll make a phone call?...

I’ve just googled it. They took the teenager to a relative’s house to look after him and his mum was arrested and interviewed when she came home.

Sounds about right to me.

carlislelass

17, next door neighbour knew. We had done the same when they left their son

Soos

I think anyone of an age to be described as "kids" should definitely not be left without a responsible adult in the house while a parent goes away. Please, have nothing to do with this (unless you want to have a word on the qt with social services). If anything DOES happen to any of them and you have agreed even in the vaguest of ways, you will always have that on your conscience. Why should you make it easy for her to abandon her responsibilities? What kind of a mother would DO that?

Comms69

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

I’ve just googled it. They took the teenager to a relative’s house to look after him and his mum was arrested and interviewed when she came home.

Sounds about right to me.

But was she charged? being arrested and interviewed does not mean you are guilty of any offence.

Marisco

On the Discussion Time board currently, there is a thread about "millenialls, snowflakes etc" Judging by some of the posts here, I can quite see why people would think some of the "kids" these days are mollycoddled.