A Tale Of Two Summers For Parents Summary

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In the article titled, “A Tale of Two Summers for Parents”, Belinda Luscombe demonstrates her way of keeping adult supervision on her kids. She doesn’t not do the supervision herself, instead she pays people to watch over her kids so that she doesn’t have to and could work. She also details that there are other parents out there that don’t supervise their kids and leave them alone. She believes kids shouldn’t be required to have adult supervision, from what I can understand. I believe that elementary-school-age children should require adult supervision outside of school. Children between the age of four and twelve years are not suitable to be kept alone. The issue with not keeping adult supervision on elementary kids is that many

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