going to be a 'bad' mummy later.........

[QueenOfQuotes]

have to take DS1 to his induction afternoon (2nd one - hoping he doesn't throw up like he did last week LOL) at his new school.........thing is DS2 has his sleep at 1pm-3pm - and the induction afternoon starts at 1.30

So I'm going to put DS2 down for his sleep as usual, at 1.30 on the dot grab the monitor, lock the front door and whizz round to the school to drop DS1 off - then whizz back again

Another vote for QofQ here too. Yours is the voice of reason.

"Yours is the voice of reason"

• oh no!!!! You're all supposed to think I'm a completely unreasonable, scatty, blonde cow

FWIW, I don't hate you!
But I do get "Blue Cow moments" (as my DH calls em with me) with some of your postings.......
"She's off again!"
It's good to stir things up!

Oh you're blonde are you? Well, that makes a difference.....

Sorry that I haven't got time to read all the posts so ignore me if I'm repeating what's already been said but what if something happened to you while you were out? something that delayed you.

"But I do get "Blue Cow moments" (as my DH calls em with me) with some of your postings.......
"She's off again!" "

PMSL - my DH would probably agree with that one

"but what if something happened to you while you were out? "

What if I fell down the stairs after putting him down for nap? What if I burn myself preparing the pasta salad for dinner in a few minutes time, what if when I go out to chop up some more of the old logs in the garden I cut myself with the axe/saw...........DS2 will still be able to do absoultey nothing about it

Ahem Navy Bovine.......!!!

what? moi?

Has this thing kicked off yet? (Sorry Suzywong!)

PMSL at RTKanga's falling over at school and taking several minutes to get up.

And whoever said they would never leave their baby alone asleep but would get a neighbour in - what if the neighbour was a paedophile? Shock, horror, panic.

Are you back yet, QoQ?

This is the kind of thread that has completely destroyed my confidence as a mother. I do something similar (leave either ds 2.11 or DD 7months alone in the car in the entrance to our car park - 2 doors down from us - whilst i take the other one into the house and then go out of the house whilst i park the car and take the other one in). I do not think there is anything else i can do as DS can run off into the main road at any minute and i cannot run after him whilst carrying DD. I am fully aware of the risk and spend the entire time panicking and hoping that everything will be ok. Now, not for the first time, I am gobsmacked at the response to this post. granted, i would not have posted the original thread in the first place, but I do not beleive she deserved the 100s of posts that followed.

At the end of the day, we are all trying to do our very best for our kids, all in different ways. As well as QOQ, there are countless "lurkers" like myself who read this and are in a similar situation and if they are like me think, I must be such an awful mother, how can I do something that is so awful to these 2 angels that I love so much?

I realise that I may be over reacting to what is just a bunch of stranger's opinions, but as I have no friends with kids, come to think of it no friends in my area, I come to this site as examples of how other parents cope. So comparing myself to most of you I fall dramatically short and it's denting my confidence so much that I just am not sure I am doing the right things for my kids anymore, and it's killing me.

what a long rambling post but I think i feel better for having said it. QOQ, you know your situation best, if you're Ok with it, then do it.

Tweetyfish, please don't be upset or feel like a bad mother...it was a thread started to "get things going" and it certainly sparked a debate!
We all have different circumstances and obviously we all do things differently.

Have you gone then QoQ?

Thanks Lizzylou

Are you back yet!!

TBH when I first saw this thread I was a little HMMMMMM. But once explained HOW close you are I thought - I'd do that too. I pop round to neighbours (or have done) and I certianly couldn't hear if I was at the bottom of my garden and I have done that too.

GET A LIFE is all I will say to SOME posters here

"Are you back yet, QoQ?"

No.............

was just about to go - looked out of the window and strangely saw no cars parked up the road.........came upstairs and peeked through the window into the school hall where the induction afternoons and held and saw no-one in there..........

Decided to check the letter to make sure it is today..........and discovered his next induction is NEXT Tuesday, with his 3rd and final one the Tuesday after

Just had to explain to a very disappointed 4 3/4yrs old that not only is he not going to school today - but that it's too late to take him to nursery instead

PMSL @ QOQ
Hilarious! After all that!

LOL

but I'll still do what I planned to do 'today' - next week

pmsl!

You could send him on his own

oh my god! i did this once well nearly we lived in a flat above a shop...to get into our flat you had to open three doors ,,i needed washing powder the shop was 3 doors along from our front door... adding we were on a main road!! dd was 3 and sitting watching tv..i said i need to go to the shop she said i wanna watch this so i said ok dont you move though ..i will be 3 minutes ok? and i left her [cringes] i ran to the shop picked up the powder and who tugged on my blouse??? dd she had gone down 2 flights of stairs though 3 doors down the road and into the shop ..belive me i would never do it again waht if she had been grabbed what if she had gone in the road what if the flat had caught fire...need i go on ,,,,,,shes 16 tomorrow/..

AA - the 'debate' itself seems to have finished - but to save you reading through the whole thread

DS2 is 18 months, still sleeps in a cot, and I would NEVER leave either of my children like that if they were awake (especially not DS2 as he's a little monster while he's awake LOL).

Could you not construct some kind of catapult that you could put him in and then just catapult him over?