OT- How Old To Leave Alone?

[juliebug]

This is for my own children not dcks How old would you child have to be to stay home alone.

would it matter the time of day too? like...

[jen]

Fatal home daycare fire. I can't even imagine how this happened.

http://www.charter.net/news/read.php...G0%40news.ap.o...

My spouse informed me that my child upon being dropped off at his day care yesterday was distraught. He was crying as he sometimes does, He is 4. The...