To leave the children at home while they’re napping?

[ParkLife123]

Please hear me out.

House has a driveway outside, and then the street. On the other side of the street is a playground which my DS aged 4 loves. We go out there to play as often as we can but usually all four of us (me, DS, his younger brother aged 2, and newest addition our 5 month old baby).

I’m considering, in order to be able to spend a little quality 1:1 time with DS, taking him occasionally across the street while the other two nap. House is alarmed. I have baby monitors looking into their cots - the two year old cannot get out of his cot yet and in any case there’s also a baby gate at the door.

But really any sign of movement or noise from either of them and I get an alert on my phone.

The time it takes to get back home from the playground realistically is around 1 minute.

Is this a terrible idea? I’ve thought about the risks of them choking or something but also think that I would be able to get back home in the same time as it would take me to get to them if I was for example in the shower!

Does it sound fine or is it a risk no one else would take?

Oh I agree (and I'm sure they would too) that going to the park is too far but it was when it broke down into leaving the room to pee that I found it ridiculous.

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I was all for 'no' but now the op has posted a picture and its a cul de sac, I might do it. But actually I would leave the front door unlocked so its quicker to get inside if anything happens.

No, no, no
If something happened you’d never forgive yourself.

Whereas you would totally forgive yourself if something happened while you were having a shower, crap, hoovering next