One of our DC (she is 4.4) has started waking very early. We got fed up of her jumping into our bed and wriggling nonstop and told her she had to stay in bed.
DH then told her, without telling me, that if she really couldn't get back to sleep she could go downstairs and watch c-beebies.
Something in my head feels this is all wrong and I don't know why. The doors are locked so she can't get out of the house. There is a woodburning stove in the sitting room but it has a fireguard and it would be pretty hard for her to get that off and wrench open the door to the stove which is pretty stiff.
I think after years of my parents limiting tv and us limiting her tv, I don't feel she should be watching it in the morning. Especially by herself. This morning was the first time I heard her go downstairs and I felt dreadful as I dozed off again (had been up with baby in night) and woke up an hour later. I don't like to think of her downstairs unattended for an hour by herself. The last few days she has tiptoed down so quietly we haven't even heard her which also panics me a bit.
Does anyone else let their DC do this? Will some awful tragedy befall her that I haven't thought of? Any advice gratefully recieved.