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Bizzy 
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 3:34pm |
it is just so tempting to leave eden asleep in her cot while i go get gabriel from kindy or run up to the dairy...  its less than 5 mins drive ...
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 3:37pm |
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Naughty thoughts....
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 3:54pm |
I know that feeling...would never do it but it is frustrating knowing you have to disturb them for a 2 minute thing 
Just a question:
Do you guys take baby out of the car if running into a shop and out or when paying for petrol?
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 3:57pm |
 Peanut wrote:
Do you guys take baby out of the car if running into a shop and out or when paying for petrol? |
Depends, with petrol I usually use pak n save fuel which is self service and pay so I don't need to run in to pay..
When I'm dashing into a shop for something real quick - like the post office - I can see through the window, if there is no one in there then yeah I leave him there for the minute I'm in there, if there are people in there then nah I get him out
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 4:19pm |
kebakat wrote:
Peanut wrote:
Do you guys take baby out of the car if running into a shop and out or when paying for petrol? |
Depends, with petrol I usually use pak n save fuel which is self service and pay so I don't need to run in to pay..
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yep me too!
its a lot harder here cause if i have all the kids in the car then if i get one out i have to get them all out. and same if i have the 2 younger. if i am going into the dairy i leave them cause i park right outside. have left them in the car while i dropped a library book off cause they were right outside also but i wont leave them in the car if i have to go anywhere else...
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 4:40pm |
I leave Jack in the car if I have to quickly duck in and get something, like pay for petrol, pop into the dairy or the bakery. I can usually see my car.
And as for you Bizzy - naughty naughty!  I feel exactly the same sometimes... like when you're in the middle of baking and realise you have no milk argh.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 5:00pm |
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My neighbour does it! I ran into her one day while we were heading home and she was heading out to the supermarket and I asked where her kid was (then age 18 months) and she said "Asleep, he sleeps for 3 hours so he doesn't even know I'm gone"
The supermarket is a 10 minute walk each way plus shopping time, I was speechless!
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 5:08pm |
OMG caraMel, thats a shocker 
It is really tempting though. I'll leave Joshua in the car if I'm running in to a shop and I've parked right out front and can see him. Will also leave him when getting petrol, but thats it. I'd not be able to forgive myself if I dashed up the road for milk or whatever while he was asleep and something horrible happened. I mean, what if you have a crash on the way or something?? Nah, just not worth it.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 5:23pm |
I often leave my girls sleeping at home a pop over to my parents house  The live next door so It is only about 15 meteres away but I feel so bad when ever I do it. I come back to check on them every few minutes, and can see the bedroom through the window.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 5:27pm |
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In cases like that Daizy if you had a monitor you could take the parent unit with you..... I don't reckon thats so bad.
I pop out to the mail box or to get the bins in when Joshua is asleep, and thats about 100m away.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 6:34pm |
I'm pretty paranoid when it comes to this kinda thing, I have only once left the boy in the car whilst I've popped into a dairy. Yesterday I was parked right outside but I chose to take him in with me - I live in South Auckland...so you can't be too cautious
Would never leave him at home on his own or in the car on his own again.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:00pm |
LOL Bizzy, I sooooo know the feeling!
CaraMel - that IS a shocker! What if the house catches fire?
As for leaving the kids in the car, I'm guilty of doing that. It becomes a logistics thing, when the gremlins had outgrown their capsules but were not walking getting them out of the car meant getting the buggy out and putting them both in it, which was ridiculous for a 2 min job like taking Maya into preschool. If I'm going to be longer than a couple of mins I always take them with me, and I'd never leave them in the car if I thought it was somewhere dodgy.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:03pm |
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Daizy - that just makes sense hun. It's pretty much like being on the same property being that close anyway!
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:05pm |
It is very tempting, Deb but I know you'd never actually do that... right??!?!?
Maybe I'm seriously paranoid but I don't leave her in the car alone ever! Even when I go to pay petrol I'll take her inside with me (or just get petrol when I'm in the car alone). I've got a fear that the car will get pinched or hit with her in it. Crazy I know 
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:08pm |
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LOL Toni I was like that when I had Maya. Once when she was a few weeks old I made the petrol station attendant stand at my car and watch her coz I didn't want anyone to steal her.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:18pm |
I often set up the phones so i can hear when they wake up. I think hanging the washoing out and getting mail, I think its just as bad if not worse when i have to leave them while hanging out washing or getting the mail in.
emz- we do live on the same property  We live in a granny flat on the other side of the garage. Although we are still pretty much our own unit with our own fenced off backyard and everything
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:21pm |
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It took me ages to get petrol when it was just myself and Rohann in the car. I was so worried if I left her to go pay someone would abuse me!
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:23pm |
Oh, duh me! hehe that's so cool - babysitter's on hand at all times
Yeah I find I leave Jack alone longer when I'm hanging out the washing than when I go and pay for petrol so its no biggie for me I guess. Although I'm pretty (OK some say VERY) relaxed as a parent when it comes to these sorts of things for some reason. I thought it would bother me but it doesn't. Just logistics I guess.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:33pm |
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Don't drive, so not really that applicable... not far you can walk in 2 mins that's useful (the letterbox? lol, well I'd do that, it's just down the stairs)
But when staying on holiday at my grandparent's place in hastings, I've left him asleep in his cot in the bedroom there, and gone over to my uncle's house, which is like 5 metres away, on the same property... doesn't worry me, as I'm not far... felt worse when staying at my dad's house leaving him in the upstairs bedroom (18 months) wondering if he'd figure out how to climb out of his cot and fall down the stairs!
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:44pm |
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so tempting...
