WIU to leave DD asleep in a hotel room while I went to breakfast?

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She's 15.8 for goodness sake. Dh thinks I was

We're in England, she's legally able to get married in 4 months and I was only downstairs . . .

oh dear...I fear my DH will be this way with DD! He is very protective of her (rightly so!) at 3.5 and I can just see it going this way too

I'd have asked my DS if he wanted to get up for breakfast, because being a bottomless pit when it comes to food, he'd have been beyond put out if i'd have gone without him, or worse that he'd go without!

He's almost 9 though, but at 15/16 i'd ask him, but then go if he didn't move, he could then have the option to join me or not.

In terms of leaving your almost 16yo alone in a room, when you're in the building, definitely NBU at all. At that age, i'd expect to leave DS alone in the house, he'd be coming home from school on his own etc.

Why is your DH being so precious about this?

As long as you roused enough for her to know that you were going and she was happy with it then I can't see that there is a problem with it. I personally wouldn't do it but that's just my preference, she's old enough for you and her to make a decision about.

I clicked onto this thread expecting you to have said you'd left a toddler or young child in a hotel room whilst you went to eat breakfast. That would have been very unreasonable indeed.
To then read '15yr old young person' - not unreasonable at all. You would have presumably shaken her shoulder, announced you were going for breakfast, therefore she had the choice as to whether or not she would join you. If your DH felt so bad, why didn't he stay in the room with her? Is he her parent as well?????? Is she incapable of finding her way to the breakfast room? Probably not.

Definitely fine - at that age I was staying home alone for a week when my parents took the rest on holiday. I was very too sensible though.

Curious though as DS is only 2 - at what age does it become ok?

Jesus, I would have been too hungover to get up for hotel breakfast at that age! And I definitely wouldn't have been staying in a hotel with my mum.

"Jesus, I would have been too hungover to get up for hotel breakfast at that age! And I definitely wouldn't have been staying in a hotel with my mum."

Well aren't you the delightful free spirit......

God forbid you start a thread and smile in it aye!
I was away with her and my mum, she and I shared, we went to breakfast, came home, he huffed, I snorted and posted a light hearted thread and most of you got it and agree with the ridiculousness of it and some are scary and scathing and maybe need a glass of wine

And yeah huk, I'm thrilled she still isn't "free spirit" enough to refuse family time, we had a brilliant time, I hope your children still do when they're teens. It's lovely that she'll still spend time with us, I bet she is a nicer teen than that Amy hehe

I don't think your DH is concerned about the safety aspect, more the manners aspect.Couldn't you have woken her and all gone down to breakfast together.

YADNBU. She is perfectly capable of looking after herself.

YANBU unless she has said she wanted to come to the breakfast in which case I would prob have woken her up. I love a hotel breakfast.

She'd said the night before that she wasn't interested in breakfast, sorry, didn't think to say that, not drip feeding on purpose

We haven't had a fall out or anything, I just can't believe he wouldn't think it was acceptable for an n t near adult to stay in a hotel bed for an hour.

The only thing that you have done that is unreasonable is to bother putting in how many months over 15 she is!

Hahaha