At what age would you leave your DC in the bath while you got the other one dressed in the room next door?

[BrownPaperandString]

I'm asking because we have a 3.5 year old and a 2 year old and DH thinks nothing of taking the little one out of the bath in to the bedroom next door to dry him and get him ready for bed, leaving the 3.5 year old alone.

I'm horrified - am I being overly cautious and if not, what can I say to him to change his mind? He's not interested in hearing my point of view...

sounds ok to me. I would be fine with leaving a 3 year old in the bath if I was just next door.

oh Logi - how old was the child? It's this that has got me particularly twitchy.

Brown, this is why several MNers advocate keeping up a constant conversation with their dc or instructing them to sing. If a drowning child cannot speak, then it follows logically that a speaking child cannot be drowning.

no problem with this either in the meerkate household - have left them from an early age, since they are so bloody noisy together that i knew that silence probably equalled drowning and would be my cue to rush back to them in haste!

Wow - this has really freaked me out. I regularly leave DD1 2.7 in the bath for a few mins while I take baby out and dry her - admittedly if she ever stops talking I go straight back in but I wouldn't think twice about popping out now and again and think I've done that for a while.

My DD is too young to be left anyway, only 16 months, but recently with no warning at all she had a seizure. She had never had anything like it before, was completely unexpected but she was in the bath at the time. She made no noise and if DH had no been with her she would have been under the water.

Thankfully, he dragged her out straight away and she was fine. It scared the living hell out of me though.
I won't be leaving her alone in the bath 'til she's old enough to shave her legs !!!

I didn't leave my oldest one in the bath alone until he was six, and then insisted on the talking/singing thing. DD has just turned six, and I'd leave her now - but, again, so long as I could hear she's okay. Three is way too young to be left even for a minute or so IMO. I'd only do it if there were considerably older siblings in the bath with a 3-y-o, as the squabbling would tell me that things were okay.