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• Boy Calls 911 to Report a Missing Mother

  A six-year-old boy displayed far more common sense than his mother after he woke up in the middle of the night and discovered that his mom was gone. After wandering through the house looking for her, he went out to the garage and saw that her car was missing. That’s when he called 911. Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 10:30 AM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: kids, boy, mother, 911, florida, home alone

• New Brit Reality Series is Home Alone With Real Kids

  A British TV show has taken the early nineties hit that made Macauley Culkin (remember him) a star for ten minutes and made a reality version.  Boys and Girls Alone puts ten girls and ten boys alone in a house - or at the very least, as alone as you can be in a house crawling with cameramen and sound guys - for two weeks to see how kids would really cope without their parents. Read More... Posted Feb 04 2009, 08:38 AM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: tv, discipline, behavior, child safety, child abuse, safety, summer camp, camp, social skills, Jeanne Sager, home alone, children's psyches, tv show, alone, British tv

• More Parents Leaving Kids Alone to Save on Daycare

  When code enforcement officers started inspecting apartments in a small Washington-area town, they uncovered an alarming problem. There were kids in apartments all over town - kids too young to be alone, kids whose parents just couldn't afford daycare. According to a Washington Post report over the weekend it's happening all over the country - parents are leaving their kids alone so they can save a little money on daycare. Read More... Posted Dec 22 2008, 03:36 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: saving money, child welfare, daycare, economy, Jeanne Sager, babysitter, home alone, cutting back, babysitting siblings, kids home alone, helping parents

• How Old Is Old Enough?

  Being left home alone at such a tender age certainly did no harm to Macaulay Culkin, right? He learned valuable skills like self-reliance and personal grooming during his solo time -- and grew up to be an upstanding young man, yes? I'm winking so hard here that I'm afraid I'll do some damage to my left eye.   Read More... Posted Aug 20 2008, 09:00 AM by Adrienne Martini with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, NYT, home alone, Macaulay Culkin, supervision, latchkey kid

• Parents Forget 3 Year Old at Airport

  It’s a given that anytime you take a vacation you’re gonna forget something behind. A pair of socks, that copy of Breaking Dawn you’re reading. It’s a little bit more of an alarming sign if you leave your kid behind. And then don’t realize it until you are informed by airline staff…once you’re already in the air.   Read More... Posted Aug 05 2008, 10:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: christmas, travel, Israel, tom hanks, Paris, dumb parents, lost child, milk carton, airport, home alone