A new reality show in Britain conducted an experiment to understand how children and teenagers would behave when they stayed at home alone on weekends. This program called "Alone at Home" recruited four families to participate in the experiment. Each couple left their children at home alone for four days, and set up cameras throughout the family to monitor the children.
experiment.
Four couples participated in an adventure experiment in which they left their children at home alone for four days. The experiment aims to understand how children will react to four days of freedom.
Freedom.
These children are between the ages of 8 and 16, and their responses to the newly acquired freedom vary. The head of a family finally used her parents' wine cabinet, while other children ate sweets.
Rules.
"Nobody says, 'No, you can't do this', just me. I make my own rules," Natalie and Dan's 16-year-old daughter Millie said. She was alone at home with Ethan, 14, and Laurel, 13.