What age could your child enter locked house

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This is inspired by but absolutely not about another thread. Please stay on just this topic.

what age could your child enter your locked home solo?

for our house it was age 5. We have an electronic lock on one of the doors that you can enter by code. She obviously never went into an empty house, but sometimes preferred to get into the house through that door instead of one of the unlocked doors that weren’t as conveniently located in the moment.

She is 13 now and still doesn’t carry a key since she can just enter with the keypad.

I thought I was asking a simple question. Sometimes my ASD really does get in the way.

ok, let me try this again. What age do your kids start carrying a key?

I’m curious what is normal.

(Or, if you have a tech obsessed husband like mine, what age do you teach them the passcode into the house? I just put that in there because I figured there would be other crazy families like mine and someone would pipe in that their kid doesn’t have to carry a key so I was trying to cover all the scenarios to head off someone objecting that keys are old-fashioned. Also to explain how I have a teenager who is certainly old enough to be home alone and come home solo, but who doesn’t carry a key. )

I could from 7 as thats when I started walking home alone from school.
My son has a key, tied on a fabric loop inside his school bag- and has done since some time in year 3ish. He wasn't home alone ever at that point but he knew how to use it in case of some sort of emergency.
I forgot my keys once and he very proudly let me in.

12

With a key pad I imagine that's the sort of thing a child enjoys doing so they'd know it from very young. Carrying a physical key is different and it can get lost/just isn't necessary to Jane unless they need to let themselves in/out independently. I think dd might have still been 10 but near 11 when she started leaving for school around 10 or 15 mins after me. It was winter and I felt bad kicker her out in to the cold and rain to wait. She's 12 now and no longer has a key as she's lost too many so needs to just put up with waiting.

Could use a lock? 2yo.

Has a key and let's herself in? 11.

A person drops off and I'm inside and she opens the door? Never, I always meet her at the door.

DD has known where the spare key is kept since she was 6 and has used it since then when needed.

Keyless entry, anytime 4 on. Shift workers.

I got keys cut for my children when they started senior school. From that point onwards there were occasions they might have to let themselves in, as the adults of the house were out doing school runs or at work.

Prior to that there wasn't a need, someone would be around to open the door.