Man, I wasn't allowed to be home by myself until I was a pre-teen at least, and I was barely even allowed to go past certain points on the street up until that point.
...Story time, the place where I lived when I was a younger kid, turned out there was a classmate who lived in the house right at the top of the street. I happened to be over there playing with him one day and decided to ride my bike on the sidewalk on the side of his house that was not on our street, because I thought it couldn't hurt to do so since it was still by his house. Parents happened to drive by at that time and oh they were not happy at all. Soooo yeah.
Also I'm pretty sure they had neighbors spying on me and my siblings when we were playing outside. Couldn't even sneak away!