Latchkey Kid Quotes

When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid.

My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give me anything I wanted, within reason. We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but being an adopted kid, I think we had a different connotation. My parents tried extra hard, I think.

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.

It was tough for my family. My father was working; my mother was working. Sometimes I was alone at home after leaving school.

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

I was a latchkey kid. Every afternoon, I would walk home from school, let myself in, make myself a banana buttie, and watch telly until Mum came home.

I was a latchkey kid, from 4 or 5 years old.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

I was a latchkey kid from the time I was 7 years old.

I was a latchkey kid.

My mom brought me up by herself, so I was a latchkey kid. I would walk myself back from school and spent a lot of time at home alone, watching TV. There weren't a lot of Latinas - or any women of color. And the ones I saw were usually presented as stereotypes or treated like jokes.