They are in Y4 and Y7. I happily leave my Y7 child alone in the house (he also walks to and from school alone and goes out locally with friends to the park and on bike rides). I’ve never left my Y4 child alone and wouldn’t, although I will leave the two of them to pop to the shop at the end of our road. My question is this:
Would you leave two children that age for a couple of hours if you were going to be in the neighbours’ house (next door but one). We have been invited for Christmas drinks and I’m trying to work out if I should ask my mum to come round for a couple of hours instead, or leave them at home (my elder boy has a phone and they don’t really fight - they get on brilliantly and spend most evenings playing together), with one of us popping back occasionally to check on them. Interested to see what the average opinion is here!