What do you do with your DCs while you have a shower?

[Poppychick]

Assuming you have no one to watch them!

Mine are DD 3.5 and DS 1.5.

I'd leave her downstairs watching TV perhaps or in my room watching or playing in her own room. Not sure with DS though.

What do you do?

Since DS1 was 3.5 and DS2 18mo I've just left them to it downstairs. Leave the bathroom door open so I can hear the shrieks

dd1 is a very responsible nearly five year old and dd2 is 14 months. i leave all the doors open and dd2 in the playpen with dd1 keeping her company/entertaining her. which she does quite well

Well, I thought I was past all this but when I was in the shower this morning ds1 (who is eleven!) pulled the living room curtains down, pole, wooden batten, voile blind, curtains, the whole lot. So maybe I should have hung on to the playpen/stair-gate

My DD is 2.1 and I leave her playing wherever she is, I just tell her that mummy is going into the shower so she knows where I am and I leave the door open so I can hear her and she can come and see me if she needs to. I must be a terrible mummy - I often leave her to get on with whatever she is doing and go and do whatever I need to do if she is engrossed in something. Until about 20 months I left her in her room with books and stairgate on.

After bed time or when dd has a rare nap in the afternoon (I can trust the boys ...ish). Sometimes I get up exta early before they're awake but normally thats madness as they rise at ridiculous o'clock

DS 10 mths leave him in his bedroom (next door to bathroom) with loads of toys on the floor etc and then bring him into my room while I get dressed etc. It can be tricky

I used to leave ds in the playpen with loads of toys. Used to do this when I did the housework upstairs too, although obviously not for long periods of time!!

I strap ds2 in his pushchair in front of Nick Junior or similar, and I let ds1 either lay on the gamecube or watch tv. I give them both a drink, draw the curtains, lock the doors, take the keys with me, put the gate across the kitchen door, give ds1 strict instructions not to go anywhere near ds2, and he is to gcme and get me if anyone knocks the door. They are 5 and 2.

Generally, DS (2.11) stands next to the shower saying "get out, mummy, it's my shower" as he thinks it belongs to him and he should be the only one to use it. But he won't get in with me.