Granted I had older siblings but once I started 1st grade I was a latch key kid.
My sister was telling me that now if you are in K, 1st or 2nd grade and you are not waiting for your Kid at the bus stop they will take your child back to school!
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@Mamaof2: I was. Here in CT your parent has to get you off the bus until 4th grade, or they take you back.
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I was, I had an older sister though that watched us after school (once we were old enough, otherwise we went to afterschool daycare.)
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I was a latch key kid.
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No. My elementary school had an after school program called "latchkey" aimed at eliminating this. Your parents could let you stay at school and pick you up by 6pm. My mom actually ran the program, so I went there. It was a lot of arts and crafts, playing outside, and movies if it was raining. Best part (get ready to be jealous girls), it was $3/day. lol. Looking back it cracks me up how cheap it was! Like $60/mo for after school care for your kids?! (They also had a before school program that started at 6am, and that was also $3/day).
Once I went to middle school, I did go home alone because my mom was still running the after school program.
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Nope. My mom was a stay at home mom.
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My mom was a SAHM untiil I was in second grade! Then I was a latch key kid!
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@Mae: The Elementary school my kids will go to have before after care for $150 a MONTH!!!!! I cannot wait!!!!!!
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My sister and I were. My cousin would pick us up and drop us off at home. When she went to Jr. High my sister would pick me up and then take me home. We would do homework, watch TV and wait for my parents to get home.
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Nope, my mom was a stay at home mom. We were also homeschooled so we didn't leave for school.
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For some parts of my childhood. When I was really little I attended the school's after school program. Then, I received a ride home with a neighbor. Sometimes I would be by myself at home unless my brother and his nanny were there too. By 7th grade I was a full fledge latch key kid that rode the public school to and from school.
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I wish! I always was stuck in after school programs until I was 10. Then my mom stopped working so she was home.
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Yes, but not until I was in the 4th grade. Before then, my mom either stayed at home or worked part-time so she could be home when we got home.
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@Mae: Your post cleared so much up for me because I was going to say yes, I went to the latchkey program after school...and then I realized that was not what the OP meant, haha! We also had a program like you described. My mom was a teacher at another elementary school in the district, so we'd stay there and play while she finished up whatever she needed to do before leaving school. I loved it, it was ran by one of my classmate's moms and we did games, puzzles, and arts and crafts like you said.
Once we were too old for latchkey my mom hired the latchkey teacher's older kids (teenagers) to walk us home and stay for like an hour. We couldn't be trusted unsupervised because my little brother liked to do crap like chase people off our lawn with huge sticks (our house was very close to the school.)
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What's a latch key kid ?
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