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Opinion - Parents have to decide
By Tim Gill, play consultant and former director of the Children's
Play Council,
Nursery World,
24 July 2008
A father recently e-mailed me asking for advice about the freedoms he should grant to his son. I don't know him, or his son, and don't know anything about where he lives. Which, by the way, is Melbourne, Australia. Why he might think that I would be better placed than him to decide, I have absolutely no idea, and my reply said as much. So what are we to make of the NSPCC and Children's Legal Centre, which last week told parents they should not leave children under the age of 13 home alone?
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