to leave DS alone in house while we go to pub?

[LordVolAuVent]

Let me explain...

We are going on holiday with my parents and brother. We go every year and usually we camp but this year we're getting a house because DS 15months a bit young for camping (bad sleeper and noisy!). It's a tiny little village, v quiet, no crime ever as far as I know. The house has a garden, with a gate that leads onto road behind, where there is a pub.

Today my mum suggested that one night we could all go out together for a meal/drinks at the pub as it's so close we could take the baby monitor. The way things are positioned, it would be just like sitting out in the house garden, if the garden was a bit longer iyswim!

I'm not sure how I feel about this. She really sees no problem in it, we would obviously lock up the house, it would take barely a minute to get back if he woke (which he rarely does at that time), and anything untoward would be heard over the baby monitor. This all makes sense but a little thing in my mind is a bit [unsure emoticon]... I'm sure other nights we will stay in/BBQ, they will babysit so me and DH can go out, and we will stay in when they go out, but it would be nice to all go just one night.

It's not a big deal at all, she isn't going to get pissy or anything if we don't do it, but just wondering would you do it? Judge away

Not wasting your breath at all TotallyWipedOut - am very glad to hear it. I get so cross seeing people just dash willy nilly across roads with older children in buggies.

I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about traffic safety as you may have noticed . There were three children killed at my school when I was growing up and they were all killed dashing across the road rather than walking the 50m to the pedestrian crossing

LadyB . I have a bee in my bonnet about it too, but have no excuse other than being neurotically anxious about the children's safety!

Won't be showing my mum this thread, allaboardthepottytrain, no. I wouldn't want to upset her by showing her perfect strangers calling her an idiot and suggesting I hated her and never let her babysit her grandson because she made an innocent suggestion - my choice to post on AIBU not hers! As I said in the OP, it's not a big deal, she won't care if we don't do it, if only for the reason that I'm not comfortable - she's not a monster.

Sorry have not been replying, everyone, I have been reading but didn't want to keep repeating myself - not me "desperate" to go to the pub (no-one "desperate" actually, was merely a suggestion made by someone else, not "desperate" to get away from my poor DS, I've never been comfortable with the idea, hughly unlikely to do it etc etc - no point when certain people so determined to "misunderstand" the OP and castigate me for ever having had a child! Shut my legs indeed!

Am reading debate with interest though

Yes it's been a rich and varied thread hasn't it LVAV, they do say when you sup with the devil you need a very long spoon!

Just to say LVAV "I applaud you" for your take on this thread - many an OP has crumbled in the face of such - erm - richness and variety!!

I just love the idea of all these MNers going around pubs and reporting people with baby monitors to the police.

no no no no no...