To leave a 2 year old for 10 mins

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2 year old asleep in a cot they can't get out of. Needed to pop to the shops. 10 minutes away if that, child asleep the whole time, doors locked etc. Friend is horrified. WIBU?

@KimonoDragon that's horrible I used to have a recurring nightmare of being in the car and it rolling as kid quite literally my worst nightmare 😳

@SoupDragon - if the OP’s asking about someone other than herself, why did she end her OP with the question, ‘was I being unreasonable?

It seems she has a 2YO niece, so it’s pretty obvious what actually happened.

To the OP - you shutting the door on leaving could be enough to wake a sleeping 2YO, who could then spend the ten minutes you’re away crying.

But ......? Can you imagine our mum's and gran's replies to this? Perhaps our kids are safer nowadays , with cctv , fire sensors etc.

Still no reason to leave a 2 year old But it if you were on your own and had to buy the essentials? If there was a fire, you may be overwhelmed in your sleep so it's a moot point.

Just my opinion

@SoupDragon - if the OP’s asking about someone other than herself, why did she end her OP with the question, ‘was I being unreasonable?
WIBU- could stand for Would It Be Unreasonable?

or alternatively the phrasing could be “Would I Be Unreasonable if I were a person who was planning to do this?” I really don’t think this is an OP who has done this and is actually looking for validation. And the fact that she has a 2 year old niece means that she is sensible to ask others’ advice for future reference. She hasn’t once tried to justify why she thought it was probably OK, in fact she perfectly graciously agreed that she probably wasn’t ready for kids having read the responses.

I am a very, very, very relaxed parent. But no way to this. Apart from anything else do you realise how much trouble you would be in if this got out

Yeah, sorry, in the context of her OP, I think it’s ‘was I being unreasonable?’ and now she’s back-tracking due to the strength of the responses.

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OP DOES NOT HAVE CHILDREN. So please don’t waste your energy telling her she is a bad mother.

Local shop is two mins walk from our house and I would never leave our daughter alone EVER!

Why would she care YemenRoadYemen? It’s not like anybody on here knows her and can set Social Services on her.

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People back-track on here, anonymous or not, all the time when they realise opinion is against them.

Didn’t people use to leave their babies in the pram outside the pub?

I would like to think nothing could happen in 10 mins but we all know the consequences aren’t worth it

Best to get a papoose and bring them along for the ride!

People back-track on here, anonymous or not, all the time when they realise opinion is against them.

She doesn't have children.

so it’s pretty obvious what actually happened.

Only in your head.

Yes, people did used to leave babies in prams outside pubs, shops etc.

BIL once told me that when he was a baby, his mum parked his pram outside the butchers shop while she bought food.... and then went home without him. Completely forgot she’d took the baby out shopping until she got home and then rushed back to the butchers to get him. BIL thought it was a hilarious story but his mum must have been mortified about the whole thing.

Wow no words do you really have to ask!?!? Wat for e.g. if you went out and got run over? I've a feeling you've already done it and someone has told you you're completely in wrong for doing it and are now grasping at straws that someone on here will tell you it's ok, if you haven't already done it then plz DON'T. Not worth the risk

Nikki I can assure you that it will be an absolute minimum of 2 years and 9 months before OP will be leaving her 2 year old alone at home....because she doesn’t have children!!! RTFT or at least OP’s posts.

Disgusting.
I 'pop out' for 15 minutes each day to collect my son from school. And in that time my house was burgled and ransacked. Imagine if I'd left a baby at home...a really stupid thing to do.

Obv the answer was no

Glad wasn’t you op

To all those posters worried about you being hit by a car - they aren’t the brightest are they? Surely it’s better to be hit by a car than for your child to be hit by a car and the odds are the same.

If a car is going to hit me on the way to the shop, personally I’d rather not have a two year with me to get hit too.

Outrageous to let your husband go to work. Suppose you had a heart attack?

Nope, don't do it.

Too big a risk to take and I don't even understand how you could have even considered this.

If a neighbour spots you and reports you or the friend reports you that's a whole world of crap you'll end up in.

It is neglect so don't do it !

PLEASE DON'T DO THIS.

Only if the shop is downstairs or two doors away would I