so tempting...
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Topic: so tempting...
Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: so tempting...
Date 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 By: Deez
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 3:37pm
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Naughty thoughts.... -------------  
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Posted By: Peanut
Date 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 By: kebakat
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 3:57pm
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 |
Peanut wrote:Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 4:19pm
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... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 4:40pm
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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 By: caraMel
Date 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! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date 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. |
Posted By: Daizy
Date 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 By: Jay_R
Date 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. |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 6:34pm
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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. ------------- Single Mum to a darling wee boy of 3 years :) |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:00pm
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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. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:03pm
| Daizy - that just makes sense hun. It's pretty much like being on the same property being that close anyway! |
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:05pm
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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 By: Maya
Date 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. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:18pm
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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 By: Tiff
Date 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! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:23pm
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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. |
Posted By: AliaDawn
Date 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 By: pepsi
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:44pm
That's not such a crazy thought these days what with the price of petrol and increase in people driving off without paying.. That would be horrific seeing your car being driven off with your child inside... |
Posted By: .Mel
Date 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..?
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date 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 . |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date 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 ! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:50pm
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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! ------------- |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date 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. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date 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! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Shorty
Date 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. |
Posted By: NeoshasMummy
Date 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 ------------- https://secure.fertilityfriend.com/home/30c4ec/" rel="nofollow">  Mrs Te Kani ❤️ Neosha 26/5/2007 |
Posted By: CuriousG
Date 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".  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 1:29pm
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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. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 1:53pm
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. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 2:06pm
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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. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: FionaS
Date 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. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 3:19pm
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