Would you leave baby alone?

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I have agreed to go and pick up a parcel for a friend tomorrow. DS is 10 weeks. I am going to have to take my DH so someone can stay with the baby - the parcel is too big for me to take him in. This seems crazy. Could I lock the car and run in? I have only just thought of itm

Sigh.... Ok Op. Wish you all the best with your parenting decisions moving forward!!

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

Absolutely. That doesn't mean that it's ok to express them in an emotive way that is likely to upset someone. Does it make you feel good about yourself to post things like this? What does that say about you?

Agree dream - no one is trying to make you feel rubbish op. You asked for opinions. Everyone has different ones. My newborn was seriously sick after birth - so I am more careful with her than most. We didn’t battle all of that just to loose her in a preventable accident or taken away from us by authorities.
I guess most people that are ‘more relaxed’ tend not to ever had a bad accident or thing happen to them and hence see risk in very different terms (of course it’s safe - it’ll never happen to me). But that rare occurrence does happen to someone - why take the even small risk?

I don't see the big deal leaving the baby in the car if you can see it the entire time, but driving 1.5hrs each way to pick up a friends parcel when you have a small baby is nuts. Say you've changed your mind - she's a cf to have even asked.

I’m genuinely miffed how you can say it was insulting. You haven’t done it yet! You were asking for opinions on a situation in the future. You need a tougher skin I think.

If you have full view of the car and are not going to be longer than max 3 minutes then yes I would

red Read your post at the top of page 8 again and tell me you weren’t trying to make the op feel bad!!

And ffs.....the authorities aren’t taking anyone’s baby away so stop posting shite like that.

News flash! You aren’t anymore careful with your child than anyone else on this thread.

redsky maybe read Really's post again.

Also i think you jeed to learn what 'preventable risk' means. You have probably taken many of them today. But hey its ok. Cos you love your kids more than me. And in your head that is a 'difference of opinion'.

Bat. Shit. Crazy.

I love mine waaaaay to much

Love is such a strong word. I mean I greatly esteem my DC and I hold them in the highest regard, but love....

Actually I risk assess for a living, that’s why I’m more relaxed because I work on probabilities and actual assessments of actual risk, as opposed to hysteria and ‘babies taken away by authorities’ ffs educate yourself first before posting shit on the internet.

I loved mine until that first trip to Texaco.

I am also finding it hilarious that u think authorites would be involved. You must lead a very sheltered life

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2846183/amp/Father-left-sick-toddler-daughter-car-outside-chemist-ran-buy-Calpol-charged-NEGLECT-spend-year-trying-clear-name.html

Yeah hilarious

Pretty sure I remember that story being debunked as a load of crap

FWIW, when I was a childminder I asked the Ofsted inspector about leaving children in the car when the situation called for it, i.e., if I risk assessed that the children were safer in their car seats inside a locked car than they were accompanying me, and the inspector agreed with me that this was fine as I'd a, risk assessed for it and decided that risk 1 was preferable to risk 2 and b, the children would still be in my line of sight. Ofsted rules are that minded children should be in sight and/or hearing.

So you had to go back 4 years to find something mildly relevant. And they won because there is no law against leaving a child unattended.

Redsky's post is ridiculous, it's exactly the sort of nonsense Stacey Solomon spouts on parenting.

You obviously don't love your children enough to bring then up with a normal healthy attitude to risk, what a stupid post.

red Can you assist and post what law is broken by leaving a child in a car?

Yes, please do cite which part of the law says it's illegal to leave a child unattended.

And good luck because nowhere in the law does it explicitly state this

Nick - a pp posted it. It’s where they are at risk. Now if nothing happens to that child then obviously all is fine. But on the rare chance something does you will have the burden of proof against you to prove why it wasn’t risky and you would be unlikely to argue it wasn’t because obviously some harm had or potentially had come to your child

OP it's sounds ridiculous that authorities would get involved but someone reported my neighbour for leaving her daughter in the car outside while she just grabbed something from her house.

If someone reports it they have to follow it up.

www.gov.uk/law-on-leaving-your-child-home-alone

Official government guidance says babies and toddlers should never be left alone.

People are bad in general at assessing risk, and people who are so statistically illiterate as to claim they never take preventable risks (because they love their kids soooo much they have no room left in their brains for rational thought...) are probably worse than average. 1600 or so extra people in the US died in car crashes in the year after 9/11 because they wrongly thought they'd be safer going by car than taking the plane.