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AIBU?

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To think this is totally unacceptable

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bonzo77 · 16/11/2019 10:33

Leaving 3 boys aged 9,6 and 4 home alone while you “nip to the shops”. Shops are a 7 minute walk / 1 minute drive away. Boys are brothers, prone to fighting but generally sensible: very unlikely to try to cook anything etc.

To avoid drip feeding. DH did this. He drove. He thought it was too much hassle to strap them all into the car. I might have left the 9 year old (10 in March). But he knows my mobile number, and not DH’s. I would probably be more likely to have left the errand till another time.

I’m fucking livid, DH cannot see the issue. I’m re-thinking my work arrangements as this was when he was meant to be looking after them while I was at work.

OP posts:
NearlyGranny · 18/11/2019 09:25

DC 9 could be left alone but ever left in sole charge of sibs 6 and 4! Imagine if 4yo had choked on something. It's a total failure of imagination and unfair on the eldest.
I'm glad OP's DH has reconsidered.

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