DS coming downstairs on his own?

[chihuahualady]

Not really an aibu but interested in what other parents think.

DS 3 has been coming downstairs on his for the past two weeks and putting the tele on usually helps him self to a piece of fruit as well.He comes down about 6:30 me and OH and DD usually wake up around 8-:8:30.

I'm fine with it but just wondering what other parents do, would you wake up with him and go down? I'm just no good when I'm tired so that extra 2 hours is needed.

You can get extra tall stair gates that he won't be able to reach. But honestly, just get up with him. It's basic parenting to supervise and make sure that your very young child is safe. I'm sorry that you have health issues which make things hard but other parents face all kinds of problems and they look after their kids. You need to do the same.

@Crystal87

Kids are great at dragging stuff to stand on to make themselves taller, which adds further to the danger.

Foregoing sleep is a choice you make when you become a parent! If I knew someone who was doing this I would raise a safeguarding against them. Anything could happen to your child in that time. Could you live with yourself if anything happened to your child because you wanted more sleep? DD gets up at 5:30 every day so I get it but you cannot leave a child that age unsupervised!

This has got to be a joke

6.30 is not an outlandish time for a 3 year old to start their day?!
Just get up, fgs, and stop pretending that you're watching him on a camera whilst simultaneously claiming that you "need the sleep".
Go to bed before 2am if you need more sleep 🤦‍♀️

Anyone trusting a 3 year old not to be stupid (and equating 3 year old behaviour with stupidity) is more than a little stupid themselves.

*'I wish my 10 year old would do this'.
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. I've posted about being worried about my 2 year old doing something like this but I have an 11 year old who thinks it's ok to wake me up in the middle of the night for silly things I can't do anything about and if she was up early would probably wake me and the toddler up!