To leave 2 under 2 in the house while I walk to get dc no 3 from childminder 5 doors down the road

[threeisacharm18]

Quick pulse - as the title says I have 2 under 2 at home with me now. Dc No 1 is school age and gets picked up by the childminder who lives 5 doors from us.

Should I pack up the 2 babies in a pushchair to walk 2 mins up the road to get dc 1 or risk it and leave them in the bouncer while I run up the road to get dc no 3?

Take them with you.

😒of course you can’t leave them in the house ffs

Take them with you.

As time consuming and annoying as it is, I do think you have to take the little ones with you I’m afraid

Take them with you. Anything could happen

Of course you need to take them with you!

I wouldn't

As long as the baby was happy and I’d called the CM to have my other child at the door. 5 doors up I’d less than a minute surely?

Leave them that is!

Definitely take them with you!

How old is Dc1? Is there a sight line to your house? Can childminder send him to you on his own?

Or ring the childminder and ask her to bring the older one out and you stand at the end of your gate and let them run down to you?

I am as laid back as they come but even I would take them or ask childminder to drop other child at home.

School age kid, 5 doors…. I’m assuming you can see down the road
call the childminder for “handover” then ask her to let your DC walk home, open the door and watch your kid walk home

The former. I can't comprehend that you're contemplating the latter.

What sort of almost 2 year old would sit in a bouncer for any length of time?!!
I can’t believe you’re actually asking this, no you shouldn’t leave a baby and a toddler alone in the house for any length of time. The bin in your front garden at a push.

It would be safer if you stood outside your house and asked (text) the childminder to release your school aged child and you can watch them walk the five doors back to you

How old is DC1? If you can see the CM house from your front door and it's the same side of the street, rather let DC1 walk home alone while you watch.

I mean, can you call the childminder to send out your child and just watch your school aged child walk 5 doors to your door from your door?

Can the school age DC not walk down the five doors? Surely that’s safer than leaving two under two in the house by themselves! I thought you were at least going to drip feed that they were both asleep in cots or something. (I mean, still a no but I’d at least understand the question)

Of course take them with you! Anything could happen in two mins.

Can the CM drop to you if you’re so close?

I have no words for this

I’m pretty chilled as a parent but no, you can’t leave children of that age home alone for even a minute.

If they were both sound asleep I may risk it as a one off, but tbh I’d rather call the childminder and ask her to pop the other ones out of the front door and watch them walk to me if it’s only 5 doors down.

However, that’s only if it’s a straight line with no crossings etc

As annoying as it is, you have to take them with you.

Why can't a school age child walk from the gate 5 doors down to your gate, while you stand there watching them?

Five doors up? Surely you can see the childminders house from yours and could just stand on the doorstep while DC runs down to you, wave to the childminder so she knows you have him, then each go back inside your respective houses?