[higgmeister]

My Mother got her college degree the same year I graduated high school.   I was a latchkey kid for several years while Mom was in school (46 miles away), student teaching, or being a teacher's aid.

At one point I got good at baking my own cinnamon and sugar "something" on a cookie sheet.   Come to think of it, my beautiful Wife of fifty years would never let me do something like that.

[Chickensoup]

you were a latch key kid in highschool. Not unusual even with boomers.