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Greetings!  We are in the process of looking at our policy regarding such
matters as unattended children in the museum, visitor age requirements, etc.
Our current policy for walk-through visitors is simply that children under
12 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.  However, we've recently
had a few cases that point out the incompleteness of this policy:

** a 15 year old babysitter with 2 small children dropped off at the museum
** a 12-year old with two younger siblings
** an 8 year old dropped off at a homeschool program while the parent went
shopping

Anyone care to share their museum's policies?  Replies offline are fine.
Thanks!

Jim Taylor
Director of Programming
The Health Adventure
P.O. Box 180
Asheville, NC 28802
828-254-6373 x 313
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