What's your opinion on people who do this?

[colditz]

Doze on the sofa while a 2.5 year old runs around the room. Is it dangerous or not?

PMSL - i was in bed this morning while my 2.7 yr old was downstairs (watching CBeebies).

I had to come down when she played about with the amp and switched it on so that Fimbles was playing at about 400 decibels. It frightened her about but she's none the worse for it

I've done it when I was ill - I think if you're in the room your kid'll bug you if they need you - it is dozing not sleeping

what's my opinion of them??

Perfectly normal - I've done it with a 12 month old (mobile one) running round the room. Make sure all sharp objects are out of reach (so they don't jab you in the eyes), close the stairgates - so they don't trash the kitchen or fall down the stairs and rest my eyes.

I don't think I've ever slepty deeply, and at the first sound of mummy, mummy, mummy, or crying (or even ominious silence , have opened my eyes to check on them.

oh and I'll probably be doing lots of it once I start work next week - I should imagine it'll take a while to 'adjust' to sleeping in the mornings, so most afternoons once I've picked DS1 up from school I'll probably doze while they play [smil]

I used to do it everyday but at 3.30 that was my conking out time

Even I think it's fine and I am Mrs. Fussy Over-Protective Smug Guilt Trippy Parent. Unless your house is not reasonably child-proofed, your child is the sort who you turn your back and they are up on the roof in 2 secs flat, or you are an extremely deep sleeper.

Personally I would confine yourselves to one, safe room while you do it. Happy sleeping

I do it (I have a three year old and an 19 months old) the stair gate is closed so the cant escape and i lie on the sofa have a rest! More often than not though I have ds2 poking me in the eye going 'wakey wakey'

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What is my opinion on people who do this? Lucky lucky lucky.

Dd would never let me get away with it. Arms around neck, pulling ... come on, mammeeeeeeeeeee

I'm glad to see I'm the the only 1! Was completely shattered after yet another broken night (why do the kids never suffer from broken nights!!). Put on Cbeebies & napped on the sofa. DD was glued to the TV! (probably cos I don't normaaly let her watch it!) Trouble is that I slept slightly longer than I thought I would & DH woke me up when he came thru the door. (Opps, no dinner that night then!)

ha, i mn upstairs whilst 2.5 year old is watching telly

I think it's fine as long as the room is child-proof. Ime, you're not deeply asleep anyway and wake up as soon as anything untoward happens. I recall many an afternoon as a child with my mum dozing on the sofa but her knitting needles never stopping click-clacking away!

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I try to persude my 2 children to join me in bed
if that doesnt work, I bribe them with watching TV in bed while mummy rests....

still doesnt work and usually end up playing hide and seek - seems to be my punishment for wanting a rest

easier to go to work

Sounds like the job description for most nannies and childminders . That is which means that is a sarcastic reply, honest .

sorry to dump this thread and run!

No, Donbean, I was referring to me!

I am an ultra paranoid mummy, so although I dozed with cbbs on all morning, I covered my legs with small cars so I could hold ds's hand while I dozed, waking up if he let go.

I am soo bloody tired, I have never been as tired as I was this morning, and I don't know why. My iron count is fine and have had plenty of sleep.

because ds won't let me: "Wake UP mummy, WAKE UP." Won't even doze if we let him get into bed with us on weekend mornings, it's al wriggling up and down the bed and tickling and jumping. I wish I had one that allowed me to nap!

I think most Mums doze with one eye open anyway, even in the middle of the night when I am sound I will wake up if one of the kids cough.

I used to do this when pg with DS2, we had a lock on the kitchen door so he couldn't get to anything dangerous and the front door was locked with the key up out of his reach. He used to ask me to put a DVD on, usually Tarzan, and I would be asleep before the opening credits had finished, sometimes if I was really lucky he would wake me up to put Tarzan back on again and I would sleep through it again . Always made sure he had a beaker of juice and a selection of snacks .

In my defence during the second trimester I had loads of energy and we were at the park almost constantly. Third trimester I wanted to go back to the sleeping but DS1 didn't let me.

do it alot. doze best when they are making lots of noise. then I wake up when there is silence. silence is bad. silence generally means writing on the walls or tearing a box of tissues into very small pieces behind the sofa or trying to put something unsuitable up left nostril...

Am ROFLMAO at this thread!

Course, I've done this but not for a while, not since yesterday afternoon! You only get 10 minutes of light dozing but I find that is actually just enough to perk you up again - you only need a power nap!

Tbh, don't tend to do it now as ds3 only 14 months old and a little monkey. When the others were younger they couldn't open the doors so I could 'lock' them in the room with me but now they open them and ds3 can get out.

Friends Husband did this and one child ate some dog food and the other played with the telephone and dialed 999 ........ [GRIN] BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a deffinite trick to it. Close off the room, make sure EVERYTHING you value is out of sight...

Princess peahead, LOL! Silence IS NOT GOOD! Don't like silence!

I used to do this before my anaemia was treated. But DD wouldn't run around. Instead she'd shout, 'Wakey! Wakey, Mummy!'