I’m paying $1500 for one month for Y Day Camp. That includes until 6:30 pm, which enables me to get out of work at 5:30 and then have my 45 minute commute.
I was thinking what @JLeslie said, that these are boys we’re talking about, and boys are generally more immature as children than girls are.
I am wondering if the young one will listen (or does listen) to the older one, if the older one gives instructions or provides supervision. Will they fight? If they’re going to be punching each other or the little one won’t listen, then it’s a problem.
A lot of people were left alone from around age 10 onward, for a few hours, and many have spent hours doing chores by themselves like Adirondack mentioned. I think the issue is more that there is a young boy being supervised by the older one, who may or may not be able to provide adequate supervision himself. It’s a long stretch of time from before the parents go to work to when they return from work, all day, every day, unsupervised by adults.
I was a relatively mature teen and yet I almost set the house on fire several times trying to cook something. We lived in a two family house at the time, owned by my grandparents, so although I was alone, I had my grandparents downstairs.