Home alone ages?

[LargeGlassofRed]

What do you think, home alone for 45 mins
9am till 9.45 am
parent 5 mins away.
Dc's ages 15, 13, 9

Need to know if I'm being unreasonable.

Seems fine to me. Not unreasonable, 15 is old enough (so is 13). The 9 year olf can be supervised by the older 2.

Fine. Unless any of the kids have significant extra needs of some sort.

That's fine. Wouldn't be an issue for me.

no problem.

but don't leave an eight year old alone with her four year old brother while you go for a night out, as my dad did regularly. fucking bastard.

Fine.

Thanks my thoughts too,
picking up dc's in the morning from their dads, he leaves for work at 9 and I have to take them all to the dentist at 10am, so picking them up at 9.45am.
He got very shirty and said he would take the 9 year old into work with him and I'd have to pick her up from there, as unreasonable to leave her alone,
I said she wouldn't be alone as with the older two,
But this is unexceptable apparently.

Reasonable unless they all fight like cat and dog.

I'm leaving my 10 year old for 10 minutes on two occasions tomorrow!

Blimey! I thought you were going to ask if a 9 yr old or younger could be left on their own for some (much longer) length of time. There's no question that a 15, 13, and 9 yr old couldn't be left for 45mins in the morning. I'd be a bit worried about their independence skills if they weren't able to be left for under an hour at those ages.

I have 15 yo, 13 yo and 10yo. 15 yo now babysits for other two in the evening for a couple of hours. My friend's 15 yo babysits for younger DC for cash. Seems fine to me. If my ex ever complained he'd get short shrift.

If the older ones are fairly trustworthy and they won't beat each other up then your ex is being a Molly coddling tosser

Yanbu

I've both been babysat by a 15yo and paid a 15yo babysitter to mind my ds7 for a couple of hours. So YANBU. At all. Unless they really do beat 7 bells out of each other when alone.

Fine, DD2 got left occasionally from 10 for 15 minutes

She'd have been fine with big sister for that length of time and DD1 is 3 not 6 years older.

Thanks all, for the reassurance, ex has the ability to make me doubt every action,
Dc's don't fight really, might have the odd disagreement but not physical.
I trust them completely, they are all quite mature and sensible.

I'm a bit that you've not left the 15 and 13yr old in charge before! You should be enjoying the ease of having the free baby sitter in the family!

I've left them before Fred, it's just ex that has an issue with it.

Ah, well ex is an arse - carry on.

Absolutely fine. Tell the ex that the eldest could get married in a matter of months- or join the army, I'm sure they can manage two younger siblings for less than an hour!! Especially since you are only 5 mins away.

I would say that's fine. The older 2 are more than old enough to look after the the other.

My eldest is 8 if she had a older siblings I would be confident that they would be fine.

Thanks all, he is an arse, he just called to say he's working from home now anyway