Being left home alone at such a tender age certainly did no harm to Macaulay Culkin, right? He learned valuable skills like self-reliance and personal grooming during his solo time -- and grew up to be an upstanding young man, yes?
I'm winking so hard here that I'm afraid I'll do some damage to my left eye.
If we can't depend on Hollywood to tell us how to parent, who can we trust? Turns out, the best way to figure out if your kid can be left unsupervised is to trust your gut.
When I was a kid, I was about 10 when I morphed into a latchkey kid -- which, now that I have kids of my own, seems really young. Have times changed? Or is it just that my perspective has?
