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Skills every latchkey kid should have Children, experts say, should have several basic skills before becoming latchkey kids, which include knowing the following:
How to lock and unlock a door.
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John Tufts, IndyStar, 18 Dec. 2025
Thanks to Hillary Knight’s illustrations, the world’s luckiest latchkey kid lives forever in ink.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
The latchkey kids who were left home to fend for ourselves.
—Glynnis MacNicol, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
Children like Paulette were often called 'latchkey kids,' a term used to describe children who returned to an empty home after school and let themselves in with their own key.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2025
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John Tufts, IndyStar, 18 Dec. 2025
Thanks to Hillary Knight’s illustrations, the world’s luckiest latchkey kid lives forever in ink.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
The latchkey kids who were left home to fend for ourselves.
—Glynnis MacNicol, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
Children like Paulette were often called 'latchkey kids,' a term used to describe children who returned to an empty home after school and let themselves in with their own key.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Latchkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latchkey. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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latchkey
noun
latch·key
ˈlach-ˌkē 
: a key for opening a door latch
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