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At what age can you trust them at home alone?
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<blockquote data-quote="emotionallybankrupt" data-source="post: 326910" data-attributes="member: 8226"><p>Yep, I did that too. My difficult child pretended to be home when she was not. Cell phones really complicate things sometimes, and unless you disable the call-forwarding on your landline, you are an open target, if your difficult child is so inclined.</p><p> </p><p>My difficult child was never trustworthy enough to be left at home. Even when I left her overnight because I was hospitalized, she used the opportunity to "play house" with a guy.</p><p> </p><p>Other times she was home alone, there were public myspace postings with our phone number and the plea for somebody to come over because she was home alone and bored.</p><p> </p><p>I'd say to trust your gut regarding your own difficult child's behavior patterns and disregard age.</p><p> </p><p>The only thing I did that gave me any security at all, was to give no warning when I was to be out for a little while, so as to give no opportunity for her to make any plans, and to give no indication of how long I'd be out or how far away from home I was. I was relatively safe if she had no idea when I'd show up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emotionallybankrupt, post: 326910, member: 8226"] Yep, I did that too. My difficult child pretended to be home when she was not. Cell phones really complicate things sometimes, and unless you disable the call-forwarding on your landline, you are an open target, if your difficult child is so inclined. My difficult child was never trustworthy enough to be left at home. Even when I left her overnight because I was hospitalized, she used the opportunity to "play house" with a guy. Other times she was home alone, there were public myspace postings with our phone number and the plea for somebody to come over because she was home alone and bored. I'd say to trust your gut regarding your own difficult child's behavior patterns and disregard age. The only thing I did that gave me any security at all, was to give no warning when I was to be out for a little while, so as to give no opportunity for her to make any plans, and to give no indication of how long I'd be out or how far away from home I was. I was relatively safe if she had no idea when I'd show up. [/QUOTE]
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