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latchkey child/kid |
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a latchkey child/kid (mainly American) a child who is often in the house alone because both parents are at work. My dad came home at seven in the evening and my mom only an hour earlier so I was a latchkey kid. |
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In this era of latchkey kids, we can provide the extra-curricula activities that so many elementary and middle schools no longer can," echoes Melissa Moffett, community developer for the Tacoma School of the Arts, an arts high school that works in partnership with the MetroParks Tacoma to offer arts and crafts classes to younger kids. 3 DEREK JETER: The Yankees star founded "Turn 2 After School," a literacy, music, and cultural program aimed to keep latchkey kids away from drugs and crime, and on track for success. Or hold parents who work long hours and come home to latchkey kids, or allow their kids to spend all day in a day-care facility being raised by strangers, accountable for neglecting the social, emotional and intellectual needs of their children? |
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