Question for the parents........ how old were your kids when you started allowing them to go out and play with their friends unsupervised ???

Seven. He had to walk to school by himself anyway...so we let him outside to play with the two little neighbor boys. I learned very quickly that the neighbor boys were criminal little sadists.

One of them showed up at the door cracking a "whip" he had made out of electrical cord. I did NOT allow my son to go outside that time.

The ex's Lindy Star Sapphire ring which was the only thing he inherited from his father disappeared around that time. The same "child" was the only non-family member who had been in the house, and stupidly, it had been left on the countertop in the kitchen.