4.
“How utterly unsupervised we were as tiny children. I remember taking care of my brother by myself for the full summer while my parents worked starting at eight; he was four.”
“Yes, and my parents would leave us four kids in the car while they stopped for groceries. It seemed like they were gone for a while, but I’m not sure now. At least long enough for everyone to be dared to honk the horn, run the windshield wipers, and, if we were really brave, get out and run in a circle around the car.”