how old you too kid have to be before you leave them alone at home let’s talk about that hi from Atlanta Georgia good mythical good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by catalyst calm the guys with the goods if you like any of the goods that we’ve talked about on this show you can go to Catullus calm with that we’ve got a link in the description you can get a free catalog shipped to your home or apartment or if you’d live I don’t know wherever you live you live in a hole in the ground there’s an address we can send a catalog to it if there’s a dress for the hole in the ground thanks for joining us today how are the flies doing it you kept catching flies what manually or with the bag you would not believe how well the flytrap is working I went out there yesterday towards the end of the day yeah and there were 30 there were about 30 flies flying around in there you know awaiting their death and then there were about a hundred that had already fallen into the pit of death so you’re not to 20,000 dead you haven’t reached all no okay so we tackled that issue it seems like things are going well it’s time to tackle a new issue the age that some kids should be left alone now why are we talking about this today we were talking with some friends recently forget gas prices you know once you have kids and you have friends who have kids you just start talking about the skyrocketing price of babysitting huh you know so the question looms well are our kids old enough to be left alone well I thought or an even more important question is what would we be arrested if we let our youth if you’re seriously asking yourself this question no I mean that’s why we talked about it I I mean obviously I’ve got a two and a half year old I’m not gonna leave a little I’ve got a 7 year old and I’ve got a nine year old yeah I’ve got all types of kids at all types of ages but um yeah you know let’s tackle the issue of latchkey kid them well and discuss it ad nauseam here I was there that’s what we do we we discuss things until it makes us nauseous I was in the group of people that were talking about this the other day and I did what I often do when people are discussing something in people’s you know it’s funny how slowly are we should slow we are to do this people start asking questions like how old does a kid have to be to leave them alone and then people I don’t know I’ve never thought it’s like what that’s what the Internet’s for and you have it on your phone but but we shouldn’t let the Internet dictate the choices we make as parent threat if the laws are on the internet that use that kind of takes care of itself you got to make sure you’re being legal here so so I have the list ladies and gentlemen and this is the United States of America list by state and that that’s just all we have right now and hold on stop the presses I did not welcome the new people who are joining today because today is so unwelcoming yeah today is bring a friend a good mythical morning so welcome friends is some fun that hot Hawk man is so upset about you not welcoming oh goodness I forgot to bring a friend I’m good take a nap now no I think he’s just so set with you I think he not somebody else off Batman it’s in a fight put on he defeated bad heart men beat up Batman to inanimate superheroes just Fault in our presence and the one that is my favorite beat yours okay bring a friend and so I’m saying welcome friends to good mythical morning into the discussion in the comments below of the age you think is appropriate for kids to be left alone but let’s see what Vicki has to say about it now when we were at this gathering the other night was there are several parents talking there was talking there was there was a the mother of one of the women they’re an older lady uh she said oh she was like she thought that we were like what I thought you were saying that we were considering leaving our kids at home alone I’m not she was like oh they gotta be at least 10 I think that’s the law and that’s what caused me to look this up it’s like is it the law though turns out in the state of California there is no age listed there is it is unknown there is no state law a court has it actually say I know latchkey kids calm it says I know does so I think if you don’t know the kids age you can leave them home alone right it’s like he looks three but I really don’t know so I think I’m saying what you are I’m within the legal limit here it’s on no I think that means that there is no known age in fact there are only three states that I can count on this list here that actually have stated laws at which you can leave your kid home alone okay one of them is our home state link no one you know in this North Carolina yeah yeah do you know what I know what ages nine uh it is eight eight in NIH seems kind of young I mean is the lowest age listed on the entire list here I mean let my daughter Lily’s nine she’s very mature you know girls mature faster than boys anyway emotionally so I can see her staying home alone but I’m not gonna do it yet because I’m not in she’s not gonna stay she’s not gonna take care of the younger kids that you know but if it was just her I might consider it desperate situation well North Carolina is the is the lowest so I mean there you go you can leave your eight-year-old kids at home alone in North Carolina but you can also do that Maryland eight years old actually there’s two more states that have listed ages Illinois fourteen you got to be fourteen to be home alone in Illinois and you got to be ten in Oregon what’s the highest uh well okay so there are lots of unknowns and then there are several states that have guidelines now this is not an official law but it’s like if you you searched their Family and Children Services site or whatever and they have a guideline like Georgia is guideline is eight well Florida’s guideline is 1818 don’t leave your kids’ll home alone until they’re old enough to go to war the war you listen I believe that there is a very good reason for Florida’s 18 limit because every time there’s a crazy story about somebody like taking a chicken to a bank or just doing weird stuff it’s always it’s always happening in Florida or Germany if they’re all overprotective there no seriously look up crazy things happen in Florida and you will just see I think the people for really listen we can’t leave you got to be an adult to be home alone because so much crazy stuff happens in our state I’m saying that maybe the cause uh let us know if you were a latchkey kid or if you are a latchkey kid let us know if you don’t know what that means that’s person who like me I was a latchkey kid I would come home from school and I would get on the school bus in third grade yeah and I would I would ride down on I was on bus 51 and I would get off it wouldn’t even stop in my street it would stop off on the street beside my street like a road the main Oh boys Creek Road and then I don’t have to walk down Stewart Town Road the road that I lived on at the time I think technically you were on a road also I was on a road about streets up it didn’t go down that road and I had to walk and I would go into my house I had the key and I would turn the latch and I would go in and then my mom just said you know just go in and just barricade yourself in there until I get home I eat lock the doors and the windows and I would you know do that every single day 3:30 I’d get home ish about that time and then she would get home ish about six ish she had two and a half hours yeah yourself I’m just being being there alone in third third grade from third grade until win I mean just lasted I mean pretty much well I mean when you get a little bit older you start getting involved in sports next yeah yeah you have reasons to hang around school and do other things and then mom picks you up from that kind of scenario so I didn’t last too long it was actually but but I I think I’m a better person for it you know so I you know just yeah I exercised independence but what did you do I mean I mainly just sat down on the couch and watched television actually I exclusively sat down on the couch and watched television studies show that children and watch a lot of television every single boss are better off in life and I would kind of get creeped out like the house would creak and I would get kind of nervous I was a very anxious child so it was it was a little bit traumatic but no one ever like if the phone would ring I wouldn’t answer it you because you didn’t want to prove that you were home alone yeah is that sound logic well it sounds logical but it doesn’t sound logic I didn’t want people to know I was there up so you didn’t ever take advantage of this the freedom no what do you mean I can watch any channel that I could get but like dude you had a whole world you had a whole house you had multiple dramas you gotta get a backyard yet I think I was afraid to go back into my room cuz it was like in the far reaches of the house what about you I mean were you afraid good I was an anxious child I just sat I was like we’re not safest on the couch but you weren’t a latchkey well cuz your mom well then my mom was a homemaker so she would pick us up from school and bring us home so I was not really a latchkey kid but I do recall when I was 17 I’m sure I was left at home alone before this point because it was North Carolina not Florida hmm but at age of 17 while my brother was already off at college my parents went away for the weekend and they were like we feel that you’re old enough for us to leave you home alone by yourself you seem to be responsible and I was I was a relatively responsible well then I’ll ask you the question I mean did you did you take advantage of the freedom that you that you had I mean you worse insinuating that I just didn’t go far enough yes well I did some kids might decide to like go Project X and like throw a huge party or something like that I did not do that I was way too scared of my dad and that he would find out anything so I was like well it’s got to be something that I that he won’t find out about it’s got to be something that won’t damage the house so for what I decided to do was I went and got some cherry skull smokeless tobacco like you like in it in a dip dip this is North Carolina it sounds it this may sound absolutely crazy to you but this is like 1994 North Carolina I was like this is pretty commonplace yeah so sorry cheer why not you got like the baby skull no no no no well you may think that but when you take half of the container and put it into your look like juice yeah you just sit there and watch TV for days but no here’s what I did I took a huge chunk out put it in there and I just sit down and I like watch reruns of something for like an hour and then I was it well you’re like I’m here alone this is it I’m doing it this is independence just sitting here watching reruns with cherry skull in my lip and then ice made a mistake of trying to stand up and when I stood up I was like if I almost get sick thinking about it now I got so sick and I I don’t find it very often and I didn’t vomit because I had this phobia of vomiting but I should have vomited and to this day if I smell cherry skull like if you happen to be using it we know you use it on a regular basis ya know if I happen to be in North Carolina and smell cherry skull I get sick in my stomach and I think it’s so that’s what you get from being a latchkey kid let us know in the comments how you would exercise your latchkey freedom and listen we need more mythical wheel wheel of mythicality suggestions from you things that are quick things that are fun leave them on Twitter leave them on Facebook okay Rhett takes links seat um I don’t know how to say this but uh I really need to sit where you’re sitting exactly right now you want what you want to take my seat you can’t have it but my chairs at my seat my chairs exactly like yours in fact but it’s not you know I’m willing to do I wanted to just change chairs with you because technically if I sit in that chair I’ll be taking your seat but I’ll still be on this side if you’re uncomfortable about being on this side no it’s really more just about I’ve grown accustomed to this I think there’s probably divots where my where my pelvis bone is it really goes into this one I’m fond of it well I’ll give it back at some point seriously just give me an opportunity you’re gonna have to take it by force if you want it good luck with that