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

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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?

How do MN’ers put their bins out? It would take me as long to put my bins out as it would for me to walk 5 doors up and back and I always used to leave my baby inside while I did that 😬

I wouldn’t leave babies alone, I’d ask the childminder if they could walk her to the door or give you a call if you can see her house and let your daughter walk from hers to yours while you watch her. I often let my son run ahead when we’re a few doors away as I can see the house and the path he’s on so he can be the first home he loves to win

Take them with you! Someone I know left her young child home alone and he left the house to try and find her. He crossed the road and went to a neighbour's house (the neighbour was his mom's friend so he had been to her house before) fortunately he was ok, but anything could have happened.
It can take a split second for something disastrous to happen, so even though it might be inconvenient to take them, it's just not worth it to leave them alone.

Take them. What happens if.... you get locked out, run over, your other dc runs out in front of a car, one of the babies tips their bouncer up, chikes on vomit etc. Obviously all these events could happen anyway if they were with you or left n a room for a second but can you honestly say you could live with yourself if something happened and you'd left them?

^^This.

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

This

I’m glad you decided to take them with you.

Honestly the fresh air and walk will do you all good anyway, especially if they’ve been ill.

This it beggars belief you think that leaving any child under secondary age is ok

Take them....legally you cant leave them.

Agreed

But what happens to them i
f you have an accident?

With questions like this, i always ask myself, what would the papers say? As in if something awful did happen, what would the papers say about me as a parent and the incident. If i dont like my answer, then i know what the right thing to do is.

Legally of course she can

People on here really do show limited intelligence at times

Random question. My driveway is longer than the average length of 5 semi detached houses in the UK (not a stealth boast just a feature of where I live). The letter box is at the end of it. I have to go open a large gate for visitors too. The house is just out of sight at that point.
Does that mean that people wouldn't go to the letter box or wouldn't go to open the gate without packing up a range of children to accompany them?
All houses in the vicinity are similar and everyone I know would leave them in the house!

I would leave them. Five doors down you'd be back so fast and it's just like being at the bottom of the garden and back or something. Not a big deal to me

It's fucking one minute...

Agh no don’t leave them! This makes me nervous just reading it!!

The words "Madeleine" and "McCann" spring to mind.

You shouldn't, OP.

I'm currently pregnant and the thought alone fill me with stress and fear.

I always think of the McCann's who had dinner in a restaurant just a little bit further away and whose daughter was taken and hasn't been found.

Take them with you.

@HairyMcLarie i wondered the same thing. It takes me as long to take the bins out as it would to walk 5 doors and back.

Wow. Just child related things? Or life in general?

TBF, walking a couple of dozen feet/yards/metres and straight back is different from going out all evening, drinking, and conducting irregular checks back.

OP is getting a disproportionate bashing here. She hasn’t said anything to suggest she would go out socialising and leave them for hours.

5 doors isn’t 2mins.
unless they walk and you’re standing by your door watching you have to take them with.

If anyone is going to stop anything @Poopoolittlerabbit , maybe you should stop posting?