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When is the right time to let children travel alone?

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When Michael Njoro's son and daughter asked to go on their first trip without him and Susan (their mother), the 48-year-old doctor and his 45-year-old wife, a teacher felt worried. Never mind that it was a one-day trip to a skate park in a neighbouring county.

Longer trips taking them far away from home with friends were off-limits.

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