Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy When do you let kids stay at home alone?

I guess to boils down to the individual child. Every parent knows what their children are capable of.

When I was a kid, out of necessity I biked to and from school and stayed home alone till my mother came home from work. I was 6 years old. It stayed like this for most of my childhood, but I was always a very independent child.