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?

Some of the responses on here are genuinely absurd.

What could realistically happen in the 2 minutes that OP would be gone for? Do you all take your children with you when you use the bathroom too?

I can't believe you're actually asking this...it takes less than 2 minutes for a 2-year old to find a pair of scissors, knife left on a draining board, lighter left out near a candle, climb on top of a cupboard....

Like others have said, can the childminder walk to the end of her drive/path and you do the same and DC1 run home? Maybe if they were asleep take the child monitor with you? Think it would work from that distance?

personal I wouldn’t and I do feel your pain I have 3 child all pretty close in age (3, in 3years!!) and it’s a pain to get them already just for that sort distance!

Not the same, but I live opposite a Chinese take away and when my husband is away, kids (2,4,6) are in bed and I walk to the end of my drive and she runs over the road with the food (they charge £3 for delivery, which they would have to charge if I didn’t ring and ask for her to do this for me) (also, my husbands away a lot so pretty friendly with her 😂) I have ran across the road and left the two bigger ones once, wave from the take away lady, ran over and ran back. They were probably 4 and 5 at the time.

Could you ask the childminder to leave you child until the end and walk them to you? Or another collecting parent to walk them to your house with you stood by the front door watching?

I’m sure you’re a loving and caring mother but you don’t leave babies and toddlers unattended, ever. Can’t the child minder drop off your older child at your house since they’re so close anyway?

also I’m confused about you’re saying dc #1 then dc #3.

My mother left her eldest son on the sofa to just step outside for a second and found she’d accidentally locked herself out. She was beside herself thinking what could have happened.

I’m assuming the childminder has others to watch over. Ask yourself how you’d feel if they left your two for two mins to run someone’s child a few doors along.

definitely do NOT no matter how time consuming it is.

'What could realistically happen in the 2 minutes that OP would be gone for? Do you all take your children with you when you use the bathroom too'

Well actually yes, there isn't many under 2 year olds that will let their parents go to the toilet alone!
Even if you nip in another room you're there, if something happens you're there instantly to help. ypire supervising them, listening you're there. At this age theyre literally into everything and 2 of them too is twice the risk. If you think it is acceptable than you shouldn't be a parent.

@MysteryBelle I assumed that bit meant take the two little ones while she collected the 3rd child AKA DC1

Sorry it is a pain but I agree you have to take them with you. My 18 month old son went to a childminder and I got the dreaded call at 8.30 am at work to say meet them at the hospital. She'd 'popped to the loo' and he'd fallen on the edge of her MDF bookcase shelf and split his eyebrow open. I had to hold him down while they glued him, awful, my poor boy.

No. But leaving the house is different. If OP locked the door behind her, what if she couldn't get back in for whatever reason? If she didn't lock the door, what if someone walked into her house and took the babies?

Nipping to a different room in the house with the outside doors safely secured is totally different to completely leaving the house. Why would anyone even take this risk? Absurd.

I can see my childminders house, she lives directly opposite my house. I still wouldn't and don't do this and have a 7 week old and 2 year old that I have to bundle up. Massive pain especially in the rain but the consequences of one of them choking or falling or another million things that could happen is unthinkable

Why would she not be able to get back in? Lock the door and take the keys. It's not rocket science.

I don't know, what if she dropped her keys or the lock had a random malfunction? Who knows 🤷‍♀️ The only thing I know for sure as a mother is that I would not be taking that unnecessary risk with my babies.

I know this is taking it to the nth degree but if the OP gets into a routine of leaving her children and word gets out to the wrong kind of person, the childminder has to chat to the OP one day about an issue with DC, she returns home and the children are gone. It only takes a minute.

Yes, I take my children to the bathroom with me and I would never, ever leave them alone in a house. Never!

I need help! Can anyone tell me if they can see two lines on these tests. I feel I can see a faint line but not sure if it’s my eyes wanting to see what’s not there.

Regardless of locking/unlocking one of the babies could have a health issue, accident or any number of things. Alot can happen in seconds let a lone minutes. I don't know how anybody could confidently leave 2 under 2 year old home alone for any amount or time. The minutes could become even longer as well if op gets interrupted on way, neighbours talking, childminder update, dogs, cars or any number of things.

5 doors down the street? Id ask childminder to have them ready and then id run and get them. I wouldnt take two babies out for that

I’m not sure if you meant to quote me and then agree with me?

Sorry wrong thread! Please disregard

As long as the 2 minutes doesnt turn into five or ten minutes, I think its fine.

To make it worth my while, I'd try and take the babies to the shop first for milk or something or a walk around the block, collect 5 year old on the way back, and all head home together.

Of course not, why are you asking?

A school-age child is more than able to walk 5 doors home by themselves, with the CM watching them leave and the mother waiting at the door at the other end.
In much of Continental Europe children still walk 10-20 minutes home from school from the age of 6. 5 doors is fine even at age 4-5 (supervised by CM and mum at either end).
As for leaving 2 under 2 at home, no way! I have a friend whose mum nipped to the shop in the same block when she was 2. Result: horrific, life-changing burns from a boiling pot of water. Not saying that you'd risk anything like this OP, but you just don't know what could happen and you'd never forgive yourself if something did - not to mention Social Services. Fires can start from white goods like fridges or washing machines etc etc. Don't do it.
And we've been pretty chilled parents. We used to leave ours asleep in a cot, with a baby monitor, in hotel rooms to go down for dinner (not leaving the hotel like the McCanns did but I've never judged them either - what happened to them was extremely, extremely unlucky and tragic - but that's another discussion). But leaving babies at home - no.

How old are you kids? By the time I've shepherded two 2 year olds up the stairs and into the bathroom I'd have peed myself, Abd then whilst I'm having a poo one of them is likely to climb into the bath or get a tap on etc. It would feel odd making my 7 yo stand there and watch me pee.