Latchkey kids - were you ever one?

My mum wouldn’t give me a key so I had to wait in the garden shed in the cold until she got home - usually an hour or so. Eventually I did get one but not until I was about 14. Hard times, kids don’t know they’re born these days. I wouldn’t have dreamed of doing that to my children.

Not all the time. Dad was in the Navy and Mum was a nurse so latchkey days were intermittent. Always jobs like food prep or collecting in washing for me to do. Not for elder brother!!!

No, I had a stay at home mum, but I used to yearn for a time when I could be more independent.

I did like the smoke curling out of the chimney, my slippers warming on the hearth, and the smell of a casserole when I got in on a winter's day, though.

Apologies, I've posted in the wrong place. It should have been on the post about Helen Mirren

What on earth is she thinking of?? I hardly recognised her as she is usually very elegant. I wonder if her husband told her that it was not a good look!!

Yes I was but probably when I was at high school not primary. I had chores to do such as peeling potatoes for dinner.

I was a latchkey kid from the age of 7. I was always very nervous being in the house on my own.

I was one. We had a key hung from a hook inside the letterbox. Which occasionally failed when I dropped it inside the door and would be locked out until 6.30pm. Not a problem in summer, but winter...