ok roll up weirdies who NEVER leave their kdis wiht anyone

[TheDaVinciCod]

where are you all?
let me peer at you and prod you

I have no family or friends nearby who will babysit. So I happily leave them with baby sitters whom I get-shock, horror!-from the phonebook, on occasion. if cooped up too long with the kids i am not responsible for my actions, so I figure they are safer with them than with me.

My parents never left me with anybody. They also never let me forget it.

I'm happy to leave 8 month old BabyDragon with virtually anyone who'll have her.

I happily left her with my mum for 1.5 hours when she was 2 weeks old. Does that count?

I am going to have over my great nephew next weekend
and am looking forward to it

Gobble i am one of them nutters who will have loads of kids around and it doesnt bother me at all LOL

I'd leave mine with someone I know in a shot! Theres just not many people who can cope with 4 all at once.
A lady who lives up the road who I've known for a few yearstook DS2 out for a coffee with her friend yesterday morning (her triplets are 11 and she is very broody) DD's were distraught and spent most of the morning looking out the window for his return
When DS2 was 6wks old we were invited to a friends no children wedding- as DS2 was bf they said he could come, anyway we decided that we would take him to my mil's to stay with the others at about 8pm and we could go back to the evening do on our own, when we pulled onto mil driveway DS1 and DD1 had the upstairs bedroom window wide open standing on the sill waving to us!! DH went straight in a locked the window mil said that she had left the window open abit for them as they were hot

tbh, me too - I'd do the same as well. If they are children I like and they play nicely together I have no problems with it. We get on so well with my friend and all her family and all our kids play brilliantly together - touch wood, so far, not one single fight or argument.

DD2 is a limpet though and I try to leave her with my parents at least once a week for a hour (they wouldn't do any longer) as she used to scream who ever we left her with

Cod, get you prodding stick out.....

As far as I can remeber I have never left all 3 DS's with anyone except DH.

I still don't leave ds3 with anyone but DH. Ds1+ will stay with my BIL while I go shopping with my sister but I wouldn't leave Ds3 too. I wouldn't leave ds3 with anyone except my brother or DH.
I won't leave the new baby with anyone when he arrives, and even DH will only get left with him for the very very minimum of time.

The only person I'd leave them with altogether is my brother. But because I see so little of him I'd never pass on the opportunity to spend time with him too so the boys would never get a chance to have my lovely fantastic big brother all to their selves.

my mum recently told me that I mever went anywhere without her until I went to school, personally I think that has alot to do with my anxiety and panic disorder. she was always over protective and still is with my kids.

she would probably have a heart attack if she knew dd2 went to nursery 2 morning a weeks

ds1+2 will stay with BIL....

I leave my dd (6 months) with her grandparents but noone else yet. I do have friends who I would leave her with but it's usually them who I'm going out with . Her gps love having her and she needs to get used to others caring for her as I'm going back to work in Jan.

Mine go to NURSERY twice a week

Other than that, they are so awful in the evenings - screaming/night terrors that we can't leave them with anyone. One set of grandparents took the baby (JUST the baby!) for 1.5 hours last month - and she SCREAMED for the whole time. The Grandparents were very stressed when we got back.

The other Grandparent has so far refused to babysit for evening.

Me, my one and only will not be left with anyone cos Im his mummy and I dont want anything to happen to him. Weird enough!

Actually dont get me started on this, I had better go and get a fix of chocolate to calm me.

F**cking parent dumping their kids at my Halloween party last week even though they were told not to. Selfish, inconsiderate and not an ounce of sense. How can I possibly ensure their kids safety when I have 26 kids to watch, in fact I dont even know how any of them got home or if they didnt take themselves home. Wouldnt surprise me as its too much trouble for the parents to stay with them on a spooky event.
All under age of 5 by the way!!! I

had better go get that chocolate.

Ah nursery and school is different. No problems with that.

LTH

thunk
n ownder oyu get so pissed off wiht life!

I leave mine with people as often as possible ( thats a joke btw)

My aunt looks after boys over night approx once evry two months, also dp's dad and stepmum will have them for a weekend about once every 3/4 mths.
Aunt also has Ds2 every sunday morning while dp is at rugby with ds1 (This is while I am at work, not at home painting my nails etc) Dp is the under 7s coach and so its not practical to have ds2 running around the field.

Im quite lucky that people offer to look after them, my realtionship would be shot to pieces if dp and I did not have some 'Us' time.

There is not really anyone willing/able to babysit 6 yd old DS2..

He goes to school thank f*ck.. .. they have to have him.. but last year's one-to-one has gone part time this year in order to recover a bit. He also goes to respite (6 hours twice a month) and an SN kids club.. they are obviously paid to have him.

Nobody of sane mind and who cares about their house at all would have him out of the kindless of their heart. And I don't blame them.

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Am very blessed - DMum has mine for a week at a time 4 or 5 times a year, and has been known to travel for 3 hours to babysit in my own house so we could go out for the day - to Commonwealth Games in Manchester 4 yrs ago - DD was only 3 months ish at the time, but took ebm like a dream. I regularly use trusted older teenagers, and do child swaps with friends, so I get several children all at once of the afternoon completely free. Have lots of friends I trust my children with, and am very glad.

Have to admit I found it very hard leaving DS for the first time though...

mellowma your kdis dont spend hte wekend wiht oyu at all?
thats odd

i leave dd with her dad occasionally, and with my mum sometimes, she has never been left with anyone else, i wont even let her go to dps parents for a few hours, cos they are odd.
mind you, ill have another baby by april, so by then ill prob be begging people to take her

Never left my ds or dd with anyone, ds is 4 & has only slept over at my sisters once.

I am a very protective parent & i do find it hard to let go but we don't really have anyone who will have the kids so it is either me or dp

So cod looks like you will have to prod me with your stick too......

Dd is now nearly 10 months & has not been left with anyone yet!

I didn't leave ds with anyone until he was ready to do it without getting upset. When he was a baby, that meant an hour or two with dp. When he was nearly 2, a couple of hours with teenagers he knows very well. 2 and a half, with a friend who has a dd the same age, for the afternoon. Age 3.5, he is fine to go to nursery for the afternoon, and is having a babysitter for the evening (our teenage friend again) for the first time this week.

It makes sense to do it at your own pace and at the pace that suits your child. That's different for each family.

Dp's parents are more than happy to have them but they live 200 miles away, they offered to have ds for the week break just gone but i know when it comes to bed time ds will be crying for me, this does break my heart.

peer and prod away....DS has only been left with other people since sept and he was 3 in oct. He goes to playgroup 3 mornings a week. Prior to that he and DD[10mths] are occasionally looked after by PIL and my sister. I can count on one hand the amount of times that has been.

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