Not for 5 straight 24-hour days. Child labor laws, if you want to go that way, allow for a 14 year old to work a maximum of 3 hours per school day and 18 hours per school week, and only between the hours of 7am and 7pm.

Last I looked, 12 was the minimum age in Florida to leave your kid home alone. Not that that's tightly enforced. Depends on the kid. I'd trust my nearly-14 year old daughter, would not have when she was 11. My son's 11 now and I'm not so sure about him.

Yeah, it's a borderline thing. But there is a difference in an overnight, or night off kind of babysitting and a week with the responsible adult in another town or state.