I’ve been doing a dance class for a while once a week, it’s the only thing that is for me. It’s term time only, and over the summer while I wasn’t going my DH started playing football on the same night of the week. He said it was just a few weeks and wouldn’t disrupt my class. Now he wants us to both go out and leave out DD12 and DS9 home alone (7.30-9.15pm on a school night).
I get that the football is good for him and he isn’t suggesting I should give up my dance - but I really am not comfortable with leaving the kids at this time. He thinks it’s fine. We’d both be leaving our phones at the side where we might not hear if kids ring too.
We’ve left the eldest home alone for a few hours sometimes now she’s in high school, that’s usually her letting herself is after school if we’re both working in office on same day. The youngest we’ve left in her care for short bursts of time (10 mins or so). They’re both sensible and well behaved but it doesn’t feel right to leave them at bedtime at this age (youngest especially).