To leave DC downstairs

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While I go to bed? DH is in pub not sure what time he's due home. D.C. are 11 and 9. First post so please be kind, and although I'm asking I probably won't go to bed.

Yes, what Corbyn has explained.
I read the OP as suggesting she turn in for the night, whilst the dc play merrily on, with no-one to tell them when it is bedtime, etc. It isn't the 'not being in the same room, or even the same floor as her dc' but the going of to sleep leaving the dc unsupervised.

I read it as she was going to read. I assumed she'd get up to usher them up to bed at whatever the allotted time was for them. I tend to agree 9 and 11 is too young for most kids to know to take themselves off to bed appropriately, not that it necessarily matters too much in the holidays.

Are people seriously saying an 11 and 9 year old cant be left downstairs in their own house in case they don’t go to bed on time during the holidays??

No wonder young people are becoming so incompetent at basic life skills!

If mum falls asleep on the sofa same could happen!

Honestly I have a nap while my 7 year old plays merrily on, Not only that but she gets her own cereal too and is learning to cook. In three years she’ll travel to school alone!

Well, its been a long time since I posted this! Four months later I was diagnosed with breast cancer so spent a lot of time last year in bed - and my brilliant dds spent quite a lot of time downstairs and they were both safe and well! And a possible explanation as to why I was sooooo tired!!!!

Oh bless you OP! Hope you are getting better now x

Much better thank you!