Child playing in garden alone

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AIBU, 2.5yr old playing in the garden alone. I think he's too young, DP says he will be ok and I'm been overprotective.
The garden has a 6ft fence and a locked gate, can see less than half of the garden via kitchen window, can't see at all via living room window, the back doors open so can hear but not necessarily see.
DS wants to be in the garden allll day, I sit out/play with him but it's a pain not been able to get housework etc done on the days we are home.
Who's BU?

For me I feel 2.5 is too young to be in the garden alone out of sight, however, is there anyway you can have a temporary block on the part of the garden that you can't see from the kitchen? If you can, he could play in the part you can see while you wash up, fold laundry etc... while your son can still play happy!

I wouldn't trust my 2.5 year old out of sight in the garden so we compromise, she spends some time in the house and plays while I do the housework then she gets to choose where she plays. If she chooses to play in the garden I go out too with a cup of coffee and the laptop.

Where does the locked gate lead to?

Nope. He's too young to be out of sight. Compromise so that you can do your laundry etc then go out and sit whilst he jostles about.

My son is same age and I can see him from kitchen so I do jobs in the kitchen and we have a big bi fold door so we pop in and out to see each other or I take washing out and fold it in garden or do some gardening. If I havnt seen him or heard him for a couple of minutes I shout for him and he's fine in his car but in a part I can't see. I wouldn't leave him outside all day out of eye sight and ear shot, no. Even my older children I check.

Depends on your garden. If he can’t get out and you don’t have a pond or anything he can climb on to and fall from, or anything he could whack his head on, it’s probably fine.

Depends on the child and the layout.

I wouldn’t! He might put something in his mouth or eat something he shouldn’t. Too young in my view.

With my DD at that age I would potter doing jobs so I kept checking where she was. I can see pretty much all the garden from the kitchen but would pop briefly to other rooms e.g. go upstairs and then check out the bedroom window. She was sensible enough, but obviously still (very unlikely) risks.

I'm amazed your 2.5 year olds appear content to play alone mine follows me everywhere

It depends on your child and what’s in your garden!

A child that’ll happily throw a ball around and is in a fenced garden with a flat lawn no problem

A child who can’t amuse themselves for 5 seconds without getting into domethingbtgey shouldn’t and a kind in the garden, definitely not

Everything in between depends!

I’m astounded two adults can’t work that out for themselves tbh.

Tricky because in some circumstances it would be fine and others not imo.

I wouldn’t have let my dd at that age because she can fall over standing still and is generally clumsy but it wasn’t much older that I let her potter with me keeping an ear out.

I think the parent with the concerns wins at this kind of age though. It’s a constant risk assessment while they’re still little mentalists and expectations of them to keep themselves safe are very, very low so if one parent thinks there is a risk then it needs to be respected I think.

I let ds outside alone 2.10 but keep a very close eye on him as garden isn't flat and he might get himself into mischief/destroy my plants let the rabbit out again

What age would people say it usually is ok - in general?
I’ve now experience with children other than my own (nearly 2) and obviously don’t let him in the garden by himself - just curious about what age it’s more appropriate?