pop across the road whilst baby is sleeping?

[mrsbuckett]

I HAVE NOT DONE THIS.However.DS School is literally across the road. Often, at pick up time baby is fast asleep.Snoring away.I feel bad to wake her up.

Would you dash across the road?

conorsrockers or social services y take the view that here is a mother is is planning to regulary leave her tiny baby in the house alone

When I used to to the school run for my son their was no such thing as running in and out
Almost always the following would happen

1-children were not being good so teacher kept them behind thus leaving me waiting

2- children were being good so getting praise thus being kept late

3- some teachers were just always late out with their class

4- teacher wanted a word hence making me late

5- parent accosted me hence making me late

6- child was dragging their heels talking to mates thus making me late

Very rarely did I even dash in and dash out

Their ar so many situations we're you may end up taking much longer than expected

Once I waited 20 minutes only to be told he was with the welfare lady after looking all over the school for him

What shocks meisyouwould leave a small baby alone but not consider a school age child walking back as op claims its only across the road

Breathe- perhaps not in your LA and if that is the case they are breaking guidelines. If they don't provide a home visit for a baby being left alone in a property, then they are breaking the law.

Your knowledge is out of date re reporting, if it came to anyone's attention, the teacher sare duty bound to report it and only the OP knows what the other parents/neighbours are like..

I would take the opportunity to ask for some child care support or perhaps an escort for my older child

So we should provide an escort for all families because it is to much trouble to take a baby out of the house? Since when has it been that much trouble to put them into a pram and take them out with you?

If it's minutes away, why can't the child walk to opposite the house and be crossed over?

I would take the opportunity to ask for some child care support or perhaps an escort for my older child

wow I'm gobsmacked at how much entitlements some people expect with their free eduction. If there is not a lollipop person then surely they walk to opposite your door and you go out of house to watch them cross.

Birdsgottafly words ail me how many people are encouring op to leave a tiny baby alone maybe 5 days a week to do school run rather than exploring weather than the school aged child can come to the house by themselves ( we have no clue how old the other child is )

Also why can't op slightly giggle nap times by half an hour

Some people really have no clue how ss would view a person leaving a small baby regularly alone also if op becomes comftable with leaving baby oe only a short time before she is nipping to the shops

NovackNGood I woud suggest that the school is not as close as op is making out other wise why can't the op watch her child cross the road out the window or from the front door

The chance of small baby being snatched is almost nil. Likewise the chance of small baby in cot causing a fire or total destruction of house whilst parent crosses a street outside own home to allow 5 year old to cross.

How old do you need to be to remember Stop Look Listen?

No one seems to have mentioned that it is actually illegal.

If you know baby is likely to be asleep around pick-up time then why not put him/her to sleep in pushchair straight away so that you can just wheel the pushchair out when it's time to collect your child from school (baby may stay asleep that way). It's just not worth the risk - even if it's low risk, it only takes another mum/nosy neighbour to clock it and possibly report you.

I don't think it is actually illegal,but I am happy to be corrected if I am wrong.

OP isn't actually doing it,and we do not know how old the school age child is to give an opinion on whether the older child could come home without close supervision.I imagine if the older child is safe to walk home alone,this question would not arise.

It's not illegal, but leaving a child at potential risk is.

It is not illegal. What rot. It is only illegal to leave a child alone in a risky situation.

I imagine the school will not allow the child out by themselves. That is the case at my daughter's school, they will not be released without collection until year 3 and above.

So you can easily have a school aged child that cannot walk home alone even if they are being supervised from the other end, across the road etc.

How old were the children in the tuffty club adverts ?? Back in the days without 20s plenty zones, drum brakes that gave greater stopping distances and cars with no impact protection for pedestrians.

Children are more than 2 times safer walking to school now than there were in the 80's.

We don't know how old the school age child is,Novack.

They may only be 4!

Sorry I might have been misinterpreting what our trainer said on my child protection training the week before last. Leaving a baby on its own in a potentially dangerous situation (the proverbial fire / earthquake scenario) is neglect which is a form of abuse.

I would.

I think you'd be better off getting the other child to come home from school either with someone else or by themselves if the school will allow. You could wait at your gate and when you see him help him across the road.

No I stand corrected Hearts. I agree that when there is talk of potential risk to a baby,this is a situation in which that potential risk could exist,therefore making it illegal.

If a situation in which a potential risk could exist to a baby was illegal everything would be illegal.

It would be more dangerous for the baby to cross the road in all honesty.

But then that's back to things you can control,and things you can't.....

Leaving the baby ,in this situation,isn't necessary.Crossing a road at times is.

Or:

Crossing the road, in this situation, isn't necessary. Leaving a baby at times is.

Just about perspective.

The school most likey won't let a samll child home alone in y sons school all children under year 5 had to be cooled by persons over 16 years old but I am also sure the school would take a I'd view of the op leaving her baby which could be a few weeks old for all we know

FYI I often put my baby to bed thinking she is sleeping soundly to find she is open eyed playing with her feet

The an sewer is for op to ove nap time up or Down a hour not to leave baby of insist small child walks home alone

I didn't find it necessary to leave my babies alone,so I'm not sure if I was doing something different to you MissCoffee,but I obviously take the chance of crossing a road safely quite often,so I can function in a normal way.

I leave them quite often to sleep, when I'm showering or doing jobs, in the garden, talking to my neighbour, getting something from the car, cutting the hedge, million and one other times and in many of the situations listed on this thread. I have no baby currently, and would take a sleeping baby to school across the road (trying not to wake them) but I understand why you wouldn't.