Popping out with kids asleep at home

[Beabea]

i need to post some letters and the post box is just around a small corner. both kids were asleep (2yrs and 5weeks). 2yr old in buggy so both safe. would you pop out.

i didnt feel i could. just wondered if this was what most would do?

too late to post when they both wake as 5week old will sleep unless i pick him up. oh well will do it tomorow now!

We have very little offroad parking in our street and yesterday I had to go quite a way down the road twice to fit my two carseats while my small kids were playing indoors. I know it should have been done earlier but DH was out late the night before and neither of us remembered.

i couldnt even consider it.i dont think anythings THAT important and if it is id rather wake the children.for me,having children means i always think,what if?i live in a small village and it makes no difference.

I would have put baby in a sling and toddler with me in the buggy. 5wk baby would go back to sleep with motion.

I couldn't do it again for the reason that something might happen - car mounts road and kills me!

Another who's life is blighted by the "what if" disease. Something like that makes me worry that if aliens really did come down and transport me miles away, It'd be when my dd was sleeping at home.

I did do it once, in my old house. Knackered, ds1 was asleep in cot, knew he would sleep for about 2 hours, no milk in house, desperate for a coffee. Nipped out to shop - probably took 2 mins, ran there and back.

It seems really unacceptable, but as someone else said - it's like taking bin out or hanging washing up seems more acceptable!!

Glad I've confessed - that was nearly 8 years ago!!

But if the postbox was in the same street probably. I 'popped' out the other morning to take DS#2 to nursery with DD (7) watching TV and DS#1 was still asleep in bed. Nursery is the other side of the park - about 5 mins walk. However my eldest 2 are very independent and would cope with most eventualities (BTW how likely is is that there will be a fire/choking incident etc?). It wouldn't have occurred to me to worry about it TBH. I do think that 5 weeks and 2 years is a bit young for any further than within sight of house.

My parents live in a house with a 3 acre garden. When my children have been with them they've left them there asleep whilst they go to pick veg or water the greenhouse. It's a very steep garden where it isn't possible to use a buggy. Much further away from the house than a nearby postbox.

Another paranoid mum here. Just don't have the guts to do it. My MIL when she was about 4 was left on a ship in the cabin whilst her parents went ashore for dinner .

Just seen bucket's post. We have a similar situation - very little parking. A few years back I came home with all 3 kids about 8pm - pouring rain, dark, very cold - no parking near house. Choice between double parking for 2 mins getting kids out and straight into house and then leaving them with the door locked while I went to park the car, or parking at end of road, waking them and making the eldest 2 walk in the rain and dark while I carried the youngest one back to the house. Sometimes leaving them for a short time is the lesser of 2 evils.

I'd pin a big Paddington-Bear-style note to me in an envelope with "If I die horribly, please, look after my children" and inside it, I'd put my address.

Then I'd go and climb Everest.

i remember my dad leaving me in the car when he went into the shops when i was about 5. it was parked on a hill without the handbrake on of course. The car started rolling down the hill and my dad just managed to open the door and put the handbrake on before it really gained speed. Ah those were the days.