Just left my son home alone for first time, he's 7, was I wrong, what would you have done.

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OK, my son was ill this morning, he had diarear (sp sorry) and couldn't go to school. He was sometimes going every 5 mins.

My dp left for work this morning with the youngest buggy in the back of his car together with the remaining nappies.

Also we had run out of milk and break, normally this wouldn't be a problem as would nip to shop, but I didn't want to risk ds having an accident in the shop, as his trips to the loo had been very frequent, but I was out of nappys and needed to change little one and also to get the bread and milk.

My ds who 7.5 is extremely sensible, and knows the dangers of doing things he shouldn't, the shop is 15 houses up the road, no road to cross, so I dressed LO and we both ran to the shop and straight back, gone for 2 mins in total, when I came back ds was exactly where I left him, reading on the settee.

I don't know why I am beating myself up about this, guess its that time of the month when I feel awful.

Just wanted to know what you would have done, I did knock my neighbours who was out, and the others he would have been much safer on his own.

great idea WWW

character building

you're not a bad mother

Thanks to suggestions on another thread, I purchased 2 walkie talkies from Tescos a while back. This means my nearly 7 year old is now allowed out of our house to go to the play park at the bottom of our road on his own.
I guess they would also be useful in a situation like this one!

I think in NZ a child must be 12 to be legally left alone in a house.

Having said that, I have regularly had showers for longer than 2 mins with 3 year old in another room - stay in until my overvivid imagination has him choking and writhing on the floor - at which point I jump out dripping wet to find, of course, all perfectly calm.

Sounds like you did what you had to at the time.