What would you think to a year 3 child, walking to and from school alone everyday, coming home to an empty home till about 5.30pm, and spending all the summer holidays at home alone

[Lardlizard]

Apart from the odd week or two the mum could take off work for holidays rest of the time the child is home alone

Not everyone has fit healthy willing to parents who live nextdoor but one to help with their kids, so they.
Sometimes couples working hours can clash

I don’t think OP is coming back to explain.

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DS2 is in yeaar 4 and is 9, he goes to after school club on the days i work late. My older 2 are in year 7 and 8 in secondary school and come home on the school bus and then are home alone until 5:30 twice a week.
I leave my 9 year old with an older one for an hour or so if i am popping out and may on occasion leave him on his own for 10 min but thats it.

The older 2 do have days alon in the school holidays but We break it up so its only a day or so a week and the rest of the time one of us is off. DS2 goes to holiday club

I would call SS or the police if I found out a child was doing that at that age. Stupidly irresponsible parenting.

@Lardlizard is posting these odd question OPs increasingly frequently and then disappearing.

Normal in the 70s/80s.

Our primary let’s the kids walk home from year 3 with parental permission, and I know several who do. It’s a small village and everyone knows everyone and keeps an eye out for other people’s kids.

The summer holiday thing though - nope.

Bloody well wasn't normal in 70s/80s. My mum turned down jobs because she didn't want me to come home to an empty house. Mid 70s. She would have been horrified at someone doing this to a 3 year old.
I'm all growed up and have traveled the world alone so she didn't make me risk averse or timid. Just cared for.

Irresponsible and neglectful

@ChicChicChicChiclana - the OP obviously wants to keep up in suspense (what is the point of posting ffs).

@bellinisurge the child in question is not 3 years old, they are in year 3. So 7 or 8.

I'm a 70s child and while it was completely normal to walk to and from school alone, it wasnt normal to be left without adult supervision for that long. If my parents were out when I got home one of the neighbours would have been asked to keep an eye on me/let me use their toilet/give me a jam sandwich.

The walking home alone is fine (assuming reasonably close, no particularly dangerous bits). That's not the bit of the post to home in on!

It's the being home alone every evening and every day during the school holidays that's neglectful. There are people on MN threads agonising over doing this with their 12 year olds, never mind a 7/8 year old.

@VenusClapTrap , same thing applies. My mum wouldn't let me come back to an empty house until secondary school. And even then ... Never left alone in summer. In the 70s when apparently no one cared about their children .

Exactly the same experience here, Dione
A little while alone was fine, and then 1.5 hours when DBro and I were 10 and 11(neighbours door just a few feet away).
The summer holiday thing would have been unheard of.

I’d find it neglectful

Far too young if in Year 3!

@bellinisurge it was normal for plenty of other people in the 70s though. Nobody batted an eyelid about this sort of thing where I lived. Although my mother was like yours - myself and db weren’t left alone till much older.

Yet again another vague post from Op.

As @BIWI says this is the latest in a very long list of threads started, but the OP doesn't often return.

I would be concerned. I feel for parents with all the pressure to work and poor flexibility. While it might be better to be poor and care for your child, sadly we don’t have the safety net that we used to as a country and we have slowly eroded the idea that one of the parents of primary age children probably need to work a lot less unless they earn mega bucks to have proper nanny care.
This sort of thing will happen more and more....vote for another political party please country...

Neglectful, they’re not old enough to be left alone at all. Never mind walking to school alone too.

I used to walk myself to and from school from age of 7, was a 15 min walk so not just down the road , times have changed and it's not thought of as acceptable anymore.
But if it was a very short walk it would probably be ok. However spending most of school holiday home alone at that age is competely unacceptable as is being alone for a couple of hours after school , thats neglect.

Juniors are allowed to walk home alone at my dc primary school. They all walk downstairs and out an unsupervised exit.

I think it’s fairly obvious that this is very neglectful behaviour. A Year 3 child is what, 8??
If I knew this to be happening I would be calling children’s services.
Why are you even posting?