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My kids started being allowed outside to play in the neighborhood unsupervised at age 9 as long as they are with a group of other children and with one of their siblings. This way I don't have a child walking home alone from a friends house. Luckily my children all have the same friends so it has worked out. I started unsupervised, in the yard only, at about age 7. My son could go outside in the backyard unsupervised at about age 5 but only if he was with one of his sisters.
It is funny because I too remember having the run of the nieghboorhood at about age 4! But things are different now and I think that as parents we are much more aware of the dangers than our parent's generation. I mean, I think most of us here probably never used a car seat or even a seat belt growing up! Can you imagine that now? You'd get arrested for driving with a small child not in a car seat!
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Anne
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