Mother of the Year candidate

[JLM]

Just to get up on my parental pedestal a bit here.....

Alberta has no age guidlelines for when it is or isn't okay to leave a child home alone, to leave a child with another child, or anything pertaining the safety and responsibility of a child, precisely because some fourteen year olds would sit in a sweltering house and never crack a window or get a glass of water, while some ten year olds would have had the situation well in hand. When investigating an incident like this, the ages of the kids are not a factor.... the ability of the kids is.

The way it should be. :smile:

 

[shadowshiv]

Just to get up on my parental pedestal a bit here.....

Alberta has no age guidlelines for when it is or isn't okay to leave a child home alone, to leave a child with another child, or anything pertaining the safety and responsibility of a child, precisely because some fourteen year olds would sit in a sweltering house and never crack a window or get a glass of water, while some ten year olds would have had the situation well in hand. When investigating an incident like this, the ages of the kids are not a factor.... the ability of the kids is.

Regardless of the abilities of the kid in question, asking that person to watch 18 other children(regardless of their ages) was not a smart thing to do on the mother's part, especially for a week! That would be an awful lot to ask of that kid, that is for sure! This isn't directed at you, karrie, I just wanted to quote the last part of your post.