What age were you kids when you let them play out of your sight alone?

[charliecat]

Just wondering.

Do you mean alone in the house, or alone in the garden, or alone away from the house?

away from house.

Ah, right. My dd is only 4, so it hasn't happened yet

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My two are 3 and nearly 6 and we live in a flat so have no garden. They play outside where I can watch them from the balcony. I don't watch them like a hawk but could hear them if they shouted from anywhere in the flat. We live in a quiet road where there is hardly any traffic and they have a big green to play on out side the flat. This is the first summer they have been alowed out to play and the 3 year old only is allowed out when I watch constantly. Bit more relaxed with ds.

It must depend on the situation surely. Where I used to live there was a green about 150 yards along the road (quiet residential) on our side of the road and a lot of local children (it was a village so most knew each other) would play there. Well, I would let my children then aged 8 and 6 play there and take their 4 year old sister there too as long as they all stayed together.

But we have now moved and are on a main road and there isn't a place nearby where children congregate, except a small stream next to our house but I am worried about them falling in to it, so at the moment, although they are now 9 and 7, they don't alone away from the house.

they don't play alone away from the house.

I remember playing within a half mile radius of my home with all the kids from the neighbourhood. We lived on a dead end street with the beach and a golf course at the end so I was really lucky.

I love to be in a safe enclosed place where I can allow them to run off out of sight but know they'll come to no harm and I can find them if I get worried. (My oldest is 7) It rarely happens.

I can do it at the woods near my mum's in Dorset.

Gone are the Milly Molly Mandy days of sending your kids out to play for the day with a boiled egg in their pockets. Shame!

Everything's changed. My dd only almost 2 and i live in london so i can't imagine when I'd let her play out. But when we were little we were playing out in the street all the time. It's sad in a way, we got so much out of it.

LOL at the boiled egg in their pockets!!!

and my answer is when they are married with children of their own!

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and with both his grandparents.

My dd is 7 and ds is 20mths and its not going to be happening anytime soon. They play outside in the enclosed garden and thats it. Sorry but there are too many nutters around.

DS1 was 5. He's now nearly 8 and occasionally I let him take DS2 (4) out with him when I know some of the older local kids are about to keep an eye on them.

They are allowed to play out in the tenfoot, as are most of the neighbourhood kids.

A tenfoot is a wide alleyway giving access to garages at the rear of our houses, before anyone asks .