Latch Key Kids

January 5

This year my granddaughters became latch key children. Their mother joins their dad in the work force to make ends meet. A grandson is in day care.

The worry side of me goes wild thinking of what could happen during those few hours after school. Movies like "Home Alone" just add fuel to the what ifs? Their parents say, “The girls are eleven and twelve and they know what to do.”

Then I hear, “Remember when you were eleven?” The world was at war and my Mom went to work to "help win the peace." After school I returned to an empty house.

I WAS A LATCHKEY CHILD.

"Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)