To let my 9 year old become a latch key kid......

[KIMItheThreadSlayer]

......as clearly all my friends are pedophiles and axe murderers according to the government and unless I pay to get them all vetted by the nanny state I will soon be breaking the law to ask my friend to pick DS2 up from school the one day a week I go to take my disabled mother out.
I shall give DS2 a key and tell him to walk home alone across 2 main roads, (better get him a reflective vest as dark nights are coming) and when he get in I shall tell him to cook the dinner and sweep the chimney!!!!!!

[DISCLAIMER PLEASE NOTE I HAVE NO SUCH INTENTION I AM JUST FED UP WITH THE WHOLE NANNY STATE]

Only if we expect some sort of reward... whispers Kimi, I'd like a quick painless labour about a week before his due date, and a rather large bottle of Rose afterwards, please!!

As long as we don't give the thread a lift to school or give it dinner, we should be alright...

Hmm I'll have a twix and a bag of cheese and onion crisps for my reward please (is that taxable?)

Probably. Everything else is.

Do I have to give HMRC 20% of my crisps?

If they're cheese and onion might be 30%

and a third of a twix, but I'm not very good at breaking them evenly - do you think they will fine me if I don't give them enough of my twix?

Most certainly. But then, so would I...

Old a African proverb....
It takes a village to raise a child

Nanny state proverb
It takes a village to raise a child as long as they are all CRB checked and do not get any reward out of it

Applauds

takes a bow

If you marry a paedophile they can collect your dcs, but not your sister? Best friend of thirty years? Your dh's brother can babysit without a CRB check? Can I have dcs without a CRB check?

My local police women can't look after my dcs after school, even though I've known her since we were five but me the smackhead with a tendency to attract abusive partners and my own history of violence can have a child or ten if I so wish, and then even though the hospital know I'm still using and SS know my flat is damp and filthy I get to take my brand new baby home, not to meet it's siblings as they've all been taken away.

I was a latch key kid at this age! Think from around 8.

Had to feed dog when I got home and always had to get older friend to come in to my house first before she went home cos I couldn't use the tin opener..

Did you have shoes though girlsyearapart? Did you have to walk barefoot in the snow?? I did! For 14 miles there and back to school on my own - and I was only 5. >

LOL moon

That's nothing, I used to have to get up three hours before I went to bed to clean everything - with my tounge. >

Lots of lovely ideas for what I can get DS2 to do if when he makes it home alone in the dark across two main roads.

Now shall I tie the key round his neck or round his wrist????
I have some garden wire to tie it on with

Tie it to the elastic in his pants.

Do you think two is too young to be a latchkey kid

Or under his tounge, just to make sure he can't misplace it...

Two years old, Moon? You're restrained... I'm sending mine out as soon as he turns up!!!

Very wise Erika, learn em young I say!

i would post here, but my OFThread check paperwork hasn't come through yet.

i'm sure it'll be clear though.

goes off to abuse own threads

Of course YABU, the government needs to have its absolutely amazing, CRB checked, Ofsted checked, nannies, CMs and teachers look after your children for you, no matter if they are in reality quite shit with kids on occasion, at least they've been checked unlike your obviously pedophilic friends.

Kimi - I love that proverb :D

I was a latch key kid at 9. It never did me any harm.

Off to get key cut today then