Babysitting

[TheMerryPanda]

Is it ok to leave my 2 year old grandson in a buggie with a member of staff for 2 minutes while I go upstairs to the toilet? I was alone and desperate to go!

Couldn’t you have asked them to help you carry the buggy up the stairs?

I would be pretty upset if anybody left my child with strangers tbh, though I appreciate this was a difficult situation and you probably made a snap decision.

Are you the parent that found out the GP did this?

and I’m intrigued that a member of staff was willing to babysit

And you couldn’t find anywhere that didn’t involve going upstairs?

Your lack of common sense is what would
make me reluctant to leave my child with you

Unless the two year old has mobility difficulty couldn’t you take them with you? Leaving the buggy downstairs. I’ve been on a city break with my 2 year old the last week and have on a few occasions had to fold the buggy and walk him up and down stairs where there hasn’t been another easy option (on and off the metro and such).

If I was the parent, I’d be annoyed that you did this. You don’t know this person at all. I’d expect my child to be with you the whole time if you were looking after them. But that’s just me.

My mum always used to leave me with a member of staff in WH Smiths! For ages. She seemed to enjoy talking to me, but now as an adult, i wonder!

Not a shop, but when I’ve been telling at polling stations I’ve been asked to mind small children in prams and on occasion dogs. Recently got asked to mind baby in buggy by a father who had to retrieve a toddler from the beach. I can only assume they reckoned I was too old to run away with them.

What was your mum doing?

No, you leave the buggy with the staff member and take the 2 year old with you to the toilet.

No, not OK at all. You need to take him with you.