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

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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

Caligula - think the ladder that hooks over the wall would be cheaper (and easier) - I'm not very 'crafty' - and may struggle with something like that...

lol QofQ! all of this and it is next week!

I know emily

oh ok lol

I only have 1 child so am an overprotective nutter, but whilst he is asleep am often in the garden, so cant see the harm.

This reminds me of that other thread (think that it was by sleepyjess) 'I have left me baby in the car asleep, what are you going to do about it!'

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Kids get the sh*T kicked out of them everyday in this country.Some are abused and some have to walk ten miles for a cup of rice.
Leaving a baby in a pretty much risk free place for five minutes.........please.
Life is tough..far rather that then some of the threads i have read on babysitters. Lighten up all of you! none of you ever had a drink whilst in charge of your offspring...tut-tut!

I have left my kids in the house when the ice cream man has come round, because they always take their shoes off and it takes too long to put them back on with their splints, I have knock on neighbours doors while leaving them too. Nothing happened.

Golly gosh just see that this has been going on a while but have to say I had a good laugh with you mixing up your dates. Are you going to start the same thread again next week?

Haven't managed to read all of this thread yet but can I just say I work in a petrol station and I would NOT leave my dd in the car. People seem to assume you can't crash under the canapy, beleive me you can. Please take your children with you,pay at pump or if they're asleep/ there's too many of them etc.. wave furiously at the attendants until one comes out to you. We do this and take the payment off the parent and back out to the car. We also have disabled drivers we do this for.
Sorry to nag. They are not safe left in the car.

Have only quickly scanned this thread but NO there is no way I would leave any of my kids in the house alone for any amount of time.

but elliesmad... your child is more at risk OUT of the car than in it.

if you think it is likely that the car will be run into (and lets face it, it wouldn't be high speed)... then you must also admit that YOU could be hit whilst walking along.
thus you are putting baby at a much higher risk

FWIW I would and have done similar - without a monitor (have never possessed one)

Ds is now 4.5 and frequently runs down the drive way and along the pavement while I have a chat with the childminder. He's going to the house next door - ours . He know to go nowhere near the road (it's a very broad pavement) and will often, sweetly, stand by our gateway having a conversation with the wee boy across the road (also 4.5) standing at his gateway - and waiting for me to come and take him across the road. I'm sure that if we had succeeded in having a second one, there would have been times when I left the little one sleeping while I went to pick ds up (perhaps not stayed as long for the chat though !)

This is a bit like the pasting that CountessDracula got when she was disucssing the arrangements that would be in place when she had a short break away.

Hope your ds1 has a great time next week - my ds has had his inductions (Scottish schools are earlier), but like yours, has no separation anxiety (even has to be reminded to give a goodbye kiss) and is now really looking for ward to starting in August. And I'm sure ds2 will sleep peacefully.

And to give poor Tweetyfish some confidence, it had never even occurred to me to take ds in to the petrol station while I paid. I always felt he was much safer in the car. We all make our own judgements and there is a whole range of views and opinions - and we all do what we think is best for our kids in our circumstances.

Sounds like it would take her longer to poo!!

LOL - homemama - I'll time it next time shall I and see which is the quickest...........our bathroom is downstairs, at the end of the house - and even if he screamed his lungs out I'd be unable to hear him even if I left the door open

And NO I DON'T take the monitor with me when I go to the toilet LMAO

so what happens if you hear him wake up as you are dropping ds1 off, will you have the monitor with you so everyone elses hears ds2 screaming?

Wont the other mums ask where ds2 is?

what is so important about his naptime that you can't break a rule once in a while?

Enid - if he wakes as I'm dropping DS1 off I'll leave him there (as planned) and go home - and he doesn't 'scream' when he wakes up in the afternoons - he lies there and gurgles and shouts DADA at the top of his voice (always looks slightly peeved when I walk in instead of Dada LOL). In addition I don't need to turn the monitor volume all the way up - just loud enough for me to be able to hear..........

Yes they may well ask, but I doubt I'll be staying (next week that is LOL) long enough to talk - they were all a bunch of stuck up 4x4, pefect little darlings dressed up in Next and Gap snearing down their noses last week when I did stay (with DS2 awake)

And last week he was awake much longer than usual - 2 1/2hrs later for his nap, so very grumpy when he got home - had a late nap I had to wake him and we was very miserable for the rest of the night, didn't eat his dinner and wouldn't go to sleep properly in the evening..

If I make him sleep while DS1 is 'at' nursery - then he won't be able to get as much sleep as he 'needs' - as he usually has around 2hrs - so again I'd end up with a very unhappy little boy.

I was just on my way back from Tesco and I called my house to tell dh that I was 2-3 minutes away as he was waiting to leave for work. DD answered the phone and she told me daddy is leaving right now!!! Arrghhh I panicked all the way home and they're 12 and 8!!

"they were all a bunch of stuck up 4x4, pefect little darlings dressed up in Next and Gap snearing down their noses last week when I did stay" - now dont get me started on the 4x4 thing PUUURLEASE!!!

Elliesmad, I repeat my question of earlier since it got no reply first time:

I have got a bit behind with this thread but I am just bemused over the comment about what might happen if you left your child in the car while you paid for petrol.

"Carjacking, kidnapping, someone crashing into car, someone throwing something at car window and smahing it."

Firstly, I wonder how common it is for any of these things to happen (I know they do happen, but how common is it, compared say to being knocked down).

Secondly, couldn't almost any of these things equally happen when you are out of the car at the pump filling up?

Mind you, your filling station sounds a wonderful place for customer service. I would certainly use it if I knew it was near me!

although I do know mums that do it (drop kids at school while their baby is at home)- I personally think they can't cope with real life if they have to take those kind of risks just to carry out day to day tasks.

wasnt there a mom on here last week who's ds crashed her car as he was left alone in it and I think Enid had someone at her school have a similar incidemt

What risks? The risk that the baby will wake up?

I am not saying it doesn't happen, but I don't think it would happen that often at a filling station, and especially not at high speed. I have never seen a bump or a kidnapping or flying missiles in all the times I have visited a filling station.

"now dont get me started on the 4x4 thing PUUURLEASE!!! "

Well there was a whole stack of 4x4's parked outside my house and the school which aren't usually there - and which all disappeared as soon as the induction afternoon was finished LOL