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call them out call them out right this is our song we try to do our friday song live

it's the slightly off beat for me

you know what creativity points though you've never been off beat ever ever

all right so here's the deal by the way i just want you to know this i've got 50 cuban in me so

that's my 50 percent cuban not showing yeah i was gonna say it's the white that was showing there

that was that was that was the 50 irish mom yeah all right okay so uh you know detroit declared a uh cold emergency uh for yesterday and today obviously grand rapids toledo too i mean there there's a lot of schools that are closed in our listening areas so i messaged a buddy of mine just out of the blue yesterday to say hey what's going on how's it going you know what are you doing? And I asked, he said, Hey, you're at home right now. Did you take a personal day or a vacation day because your kids are home from school? And he said, no, he said, he said both he and his wife went to work, but they left a cell phone home so that their kids could check in with them in case there was an emergency. They said their kids were probably just going to sleep in pretty much most of the day. I have to ask this question. What are the ages that you leave your kids home alone ten and eight just seems too young to me oh yeah and i hate to call i hate to call you know him out and say this and that's why i will not call him out call him out i will not say his uh say his name nor will i give out his address of one two three in case cps is listening yes i but i because i i was the baby of the family so i always had uh, older siblings. Like my sister, Mary Jo is like 13 years older than me. So she was pretty much like a mom to me. She actually was my godmother, but I never had to worry about this and our kids, Chelsea and I never even let.

joe babysit luke because we just didn't trust him but i i we always had babysitters i feel weird even leaving my kids to go drive up to the kroger on union lake road and leave them home at a certain age like i think 10 and 8 just seems way you know very very young you think so so it's the 8 oh yeah

so like i would never leave lucy home alone with smith and smith is 7 um and really i will never leave lucy home alone even she's almost 11 but like the other day i had to drop off something at my friend lindsey's house lindsey lives maybe three minutes four minutes from me and she was like mom she was building a lego set and it was just her and i and she was like please please please please please i don't want to leave she don't want to go out in the cold and then come back and i was like okay i will be back in less than 10 minutes but i was a nervous wreck the

entire time i think it's one of them situations it's not a one size fits all bag for sure i think You got to know yourself and you got to know your kids. For sure. Some parents aren't as anxious and nervous as others. And some kids are more mature to be able to handle the situation. Right. I remember when I was younger, my mom used to allow my sister and I to not only stay home by ourselves, but we kind of had free reign. Like, we knew how to use the George Foreman grill. There were certain things we couldn't. Bruh.

The Foreman, the Foreman, though, has to get fired up.

That's what I'm saying. No, no, no, no, no. You're just grilling. But anything can happen. Did it start a fire, though? I never did it. I don't know.

Okay, so, because Melinda's older than you, right? No, Lynn younger.

Lynn, like, three, four years younger than me.

Oh, why did I think she was older than you? She's more mature than me at some time. So, how old were you guys?

I'm probably around this 10-age, 7-age. Okay, and so she was probably 7-age. But Melinda used to make the eggs, and I used to handle the George Foreman grill, so we was on the store.

Yeah, see, I don't trust Smith, I think is what it is.

You guys are making, like, a pawn breakfast. You guys are making toast bread? What did you guys do, too?

I used to have, well, I used to have the Bob Evans sausage, and I heat it up like that. I was on toast.

And then she would have her eggs sizzling over. And then we would go watch PB&J.

Honestly, it's not even that I think my kids would do anything bad that would cause our house to go on fire or whatever, like leave the house. I'm so scared that they are so sucked into YouTube. Somebody could come rob my house and they won't even know.

Yeah, but you be scared.

Because they're just zoned.

The last time I set my dad's house on fire, I was 21. You're grown as hell.

I don't think it's really an age thing. That's just an accident thing. But this is all day. Your friend, it's all day, right? Because he's at work.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

So that to me is, I feel like I'm alive.

I feel like.

Kevin, would you leave Josiah at the apartment? Listen, I am not. Listen, I'm a soft-ass parent, bro. And I have left Josiah, to your point. Let me go to Kroger real quick. As long as it's like 30 minutes or less. But anything can happen. As long as it's a perfect situation, 30 minutes or less, I can be back. Yes. But I get scared. Like, my brain starts like, damn, what if you choke on a grape? And, like, I can't, like, give him the Heimlich maneuver. Like, I start going crazy in my mind. But he's like, Dad, I'm good. Trust me, I'm fine. I'm literally just going to be in my room. I'm not even going to eat. He said this two days ago.

Yeah.

I always love the analogy that people give about leaving their kids in the car when they run into 7-Eleven or Speedway. And I always love the analogy of, would you leave your purse sitting on your front seat of your car while you went into Speedway or 7-Eleven? And I kind of wonder if that analogy works in this case. Like, would you leave your house open with your wallet and money sitting on the countertop?

But you're not leaving it open.

Well, I know, but you've got your kids there, so I don't know.

But I don't think it's the same. I don't think it's the same.

Sierra, what's going on? I get it. You were how old? I get your theory. How old? Megan, how old? No, before Sierra, how old? Scott Mick. By the way, Scott Mick, you could go back to jail for past sins of the past for leaving Megan home.

No statute of limitations.

Scott Mick traveled for a living. That guy was down in Mexico, I guarantee, and Megan was like five sitting at home in Toledo. Yeah, alone.

Okay, I was using the grill indoors. I had a generator running inside.

She was throwing full-on house parties and stuff. Hi, Sierra. What's up?

Hi. First time, long time. Hey, Sierra. Oh, my gosh. I've been waiting for that for years.

By the way, it says no woman to me ever.

I was going to tell you guys that my youngest sister is 14, right? Well, as of in a couple of days from now. But we've been leaving her home since she's been like 8 to 10 years old. I mean, she cooks. She cleans. She's all the above. She's at home cooking all the time, too. Wow.

Wait a second. What's your address?

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't think that that seems kind of young, eight years old?

I mean, she always had me and my youngest.

brother than my oldest sister so i mean we were always home but like on days like we had school or something she'd be home for a couple hours by herself doing her own thing okay all right listen

i'm not going to judge because my parenting was a little bit different i also jealousy was also very very uh stern you know with the kids on on certain things that they couldn't could not do uh you know i mean like i i but but with that said you know i kind of wanted my kids to get kidnapped but go ahead uh kim what's going on kim are you there hey hey kim hi kim hello good morning kim how old are your kids they are eight and ten and okay so the perfect age for this one because this is my friend's kid's age would you leave them home by themselves on a snow day

on a snow day yes we would we leave them when we go to the store and leave for a few hours at a time they have a tablet they're able to reach us we actually watch them on our dog camera

to make sure they're not killing each other wait so hold on you give them just a tablet so that that's the only line of communication is their tablet with your wi-fi they're able to reach us they're able to dial out as well okay i i you would leave them home for say for instance that you work until what five would you leave them what happens if you got into a car accident or something bad happened while you're to you at work would you how would you uh have somebody

watching your kids we have really awesome neighbors that are home all the time takes a village yes it does also first time long time all right kim's on the phone i'm such a nervous

nelly i'd be a wreck where do you live what what town do you live in because i

milbury ohio yeah okay but that's what i'm wondering sometimes the people that live in

more rural areas are more willing to do it like i i don't necessarily know if like somebody that lives, I don't know, in, uh, in Canton or, uh, I don't know, even in Detroit. And I don't want

to speak for Kim, but I don't know, first of all, how many options people have. Sometimes that is the only option, both financially and with being in small communities. Like that's, that's your

choice. Yeah. By the way, uh, Justin's on with us and Justin, we're talking about this. Is there in age uh rule at all or law at all about this um actually no in the state of michigan it's all

on the preference of the parents and how they believe the maturity and responsibility level is for their kids um so i've i have three daughters of my own as a single father and mine range from 11 to three my 11 year old does stay at the at the house i will never leave my three-year-old with her, of course, but I have seen instances in parents literally leave five-year-olds and six-year-olds, and it's literally all due to the preference of what they can do. Call 911. Do they know their address? Do they know who to contact? And the state of Michigan, they did away with that law as far as in, because I know one of your talkers were saying, don't call CPS. Yeah, CPS won't get involved, and if they do, they would literally come in the house, See if you've got food, running water, and heat, and then they'll walk away.

Yeah, I just think that, I don't know, I'd be really careful. I'd just be really, really careful.

Very true. And nowadays, I mean, you don't know anybody can come in or do anything, but that's what most parents are doing is literally having cameras, ring cameras. I don't know about just a tablet. it. My 11-year-old, she's had a phone since she was 10 because she earned it. I'm able to ring out. She has emergency contacts. And then we also set up a schedule for when I'm at work for grandma or aunts and uncles to call on a regular time if she's out of school. If she's in school, it's literally right before the bus, right after the bus. How quick, by the way, if grandma or grandpa

calls, how quick can she be over there if an emergency is going on? If the kitchen's on fire, or how fast can grandma get her pants on and over there?

No, that's another thing. Five minutes down the road, literally. Oh, see, that's very nice. Yeah, and I know some parents don't have that luxury to be able to just say, hey, you know who's down the road. They don't have that, and especially rural areas now. I grew up, and I think our closest neighbor was like a mile and a half, two miles down the road. And so a lot of kids don't understand that luxury of saying, hey,

I can just call so-and-so and they're right down the street yeah um I you know it I know maybe my kids are just different kids I just I just didn't trust them but

some people are very, very trusting of their children and maybe that's the reason why my kids now are grown adult idiots.

For me, it's not that I don't trust my kids. I don't trust

anybody else. People. I don't trust people. Tim, actually, Tim, why would you never leave your teenage kids a home alone at all? Tim?

Hello. Tim. Hey, bud. How you doing? Hey, man. So, I have a 17-year-old, a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old. okay and my 17 year old i love her to death she's not she blew or she ruined one of our microwaves i think it was like last year she did the cup of noodles and forgot to put water in it the whole entire house was engulfed in smoke oh my gosh and then out of out of all three of my kids the only one that i would be willing to leave home is my 15 year old because she's 15 going on probably 27 and my 13 year old even while we're home because my wife will allow him to cook you know because he's trying to be independent which whatever he's left the stove on and went into his room and ate whatever it is that he made and my wife ended up catching it before anything bad happened yeah so and if i leave my my my youngest daughter and my son together we'll come home to a body because my my daughter my daughter would probably murder him oh geez yeah he's 13 years old and he thinks everything is funny and he just wants to constantly poke fun at her

this guy tim is tim is more realistic than these last callers that we were talking about that's exactly the reason why i don't think you leave your kids that are eight and ten years old home alone because i think the kids are are kids you know what i mean but in those type of situations

in those type of situations though you can make food for your children you can leave something in the refrigerator so they don't have to use like everything he's everything he talked about was kind of preventable as long as you plan properly

well but still though when an accident does happen or something does happen and I even think if it happens at the adults home there's still a chance that the adults can't act fast enough but at least you know that you have a little bit more common sense than they do or at least a little bit more street knowledge you know I don't know

I think what we're solving for is peace of mind more than anything. Yes.

That's it. I think peace of mind is probably the answer, yeah.

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