Leave dc at home alone

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Starting a new job and trying to organise my childcare and work out what I need for each of my 3 dc.

Ds will be in year 5 in September. Dh works lates once a month. So I planned to book ds into after school club. However, ds really doesn't want to go to after school club ( had a few issues with a boy who isnt very kind to ds). Many dc in year 5 at the school walk home themselves. It's a 3 minute walk. My dd who is 12 will be at home.

So would I be unreasonable to let ds walk home and the 2 dc be home by themselves until I get in? They would be home alone for about an hour and a half.

Is year 5 ages 9 and 10? Really depends on the maturity and sensibility of your child and his older sibling. Generally I would say YANBU, but that’s just my opinion.

Sounds fine to me - if you trust the maturity of both.

I think that sounds fine OP assuming DC get on ok and 12yo is happy with it.

As long as they’re both fairly sensible, and you have a back up plan for emergencies, eg a neighbour they could contact, then it should be fine. It’s good for kids to be given some responsibility and shown that you trust them - it encourages them to develop initiative and some independence.
I think the modern generation of parents are so overly risk averse that they smother the kids for too long. I rarely see kids out playing in the fields round our village without an anxious parent hovering over them these days, whereas we disappeared off all day with a load of neighbouring kids and didn’t go home until teatime!