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.Mel 
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 Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:00pm |
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I would never do it.... there's always that "what if" factor, I mean you take your bag/wallet with you everywhere you go, why wouldnt' you take your child..?
Eta: to fix England
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caitlynsmygirl
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:02pm |
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I knew a girl who used to leave her six month old in her cot at home by herself for 3 hours while she went and smoked pot with boys she met off hotgossip.
She told me herself , needless to say her daughters grandma (on the dads side ) has custody of her now ...
And yes ,THREE hours .
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:03pm |
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And no, i would never do it myself because if anything happened ,you would always blame your self,
but it IS tempting tho !
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:50pm |
I so know the feeling, Deb. Once you have a lot of different aged preschoolers, you don't really want to wake the baby for the sake of picking someone else up just quickly! But gotta 
As for petrol stations and the like, I leave my kids in the car. I used to take Hannah in with me at first (when she was all I had) but nowadays I'd have to take in three!! What a waste of time LOL
I also leave them in the van when I'm doing a very quick butcher shop. Never at the supermarket, but at the butchers I can see the van through the window - and I give them a biscuit or two to keep them all happy!
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Rachael21
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 9:41pm |
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I leave my kids if I'm just popping in somewhere, but if one is awake and one asleep I take the awake one so they don't wake the other.
When Caprece was a little baby I had to take her to the dr and my sister was coming round to watch Jack because he was having a sleep. I ended up having to leave before she was there as we would of missed our appointment and Jack was asleep in his cot. I knew she wasn't far away and she pulled up just as I was driving away but I still felt guilty for months.
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 10:05pm |
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i leave my kids in the car when paying for petrol, at the dairy etc....any quick stop when i can still see the car from basically...it's just too much hassle to get them out of the car for a 1 minute errand
i must admit when charli was little and actually had daytime naps, it was tempting to leave her sleeping while i got jack from daycare as it's only 2mins down the road..but i could never bring myself to actually do it!
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Posted: 24 July 2008 at 10:12pm |
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When I usually get petrol I leave him in the car, but the pump is right by the door and he can see me and I can see him.
But tonight when I stopped at a different one and took him in with me.
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:36am |
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I leave her in the car locked while I do gas becuase I pay with eftpos at the pump so gettiung her out would put her in danger and I leave her in the car if I run in to grab my mail becuase I can still see her although I will stop soon in fear that she will learn to get out of her seat.
I will NEVER leave her home alone!!!!
Also I HATE when I see kids in the car at the supermarket and they are still there when I come out from doing my shopping, most of the time they are playing in the drivers seat as well.
My dad left my lil half brother asleep in the car when he was 16 months next thing we look out the window and the car is rolling backwards down the driveway and the door swings open and a little boy tumbles out of a moving car! The car was in neutral so he climbed out and let the handbrake off. SCARY
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:41am |
I dont have an option (although I wouldn't anyway) but everywhere I go I get the little voice of reason "meeee coming Mummy". 
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 1:29pm |
OMG I am so tempted to do this when my car is ready. It is like 2 minutes down the road to the garage. Would so save getting the pushchair ready and the boys all rugged up in warm clothes. But I won't coz we have plans after the car is ready.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 1:53pm |
 busymum wrote:
I also leave them in the van when I'm doing a very quick butcher shop. Never at the supermarket, but at the butchers I can see the van through the window - and I give them a biscuit or two to keep them all happy! |
I once left Maya in the car eating pizza with two sleeping gremlins while I ran into Countdown for nappies, it was pouring with rain and the parents parks were taken so it was just too much of a mission to get them all out, and I knew if they woke they wouldn't cry coz Maya was there. Only ever did it once tho.
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 2:06pm |
I have left Andrew in the car when it was pouring with rain when I had to run into Countdown as well. No parent parks and OMG the rain was really heavy I didn't want to go out in it myself.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 25 July 2008 at 2:34pm |
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Ahh yes, tempting indeed. I used to be a huge walker but Elle doesn't like to sit in the chair and dawdles if she walks so I very rarely get time to do any cardio exercise now. I often sit here (like now) wishing I could go for a quick 20min jog around the block. If I could, I'd be so much fitter and healthier. Never do though. Sigh.
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Posted: 26 July 2008 at 3:19pm |
Deez wrote:
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Ditto lol
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so tempting...
