Come on own up. How many of you have left a child unattended. Popped to the corner shop or the like?

Question

Angel -- I never said all parents do it , read the question again

I never even mentioned the Mccanns. Strange isn't it.

Answer 1

LOL...you must be joking! Human frailty on here???
Everybody on here is too busy being sanctimonious about the McCanns to admit the truth!

Answer 2

You have to be kidding. Why? There have always been child abductors, and, even nipping to the corner shop you might have an accident or be run over on the pavement, mugged etcetera. If this was to happen to you, your child would be unattended for a very long time.

Not too many years ago something similar happened to a mother in the UK, and it wasn't realised for three weeks, by which time the baby was dead and had eaten it's soiled nappy in desperation.

Added to that - anyone remember the Roman Point disaster - the house could blow up whilst you were out, how would you feel about not taking the child/children then?

So no way would I ever leave a child unattended on its own in the house.

Why would you leave a child? - You just pop it in a pushchair or the car seat and off you go.

No way would I ever have left, nor would I ever leave a child unattended. Neither would they play outside without a responsible adult being present at all times.

Answer 3

If Madeleine have been discovered risk-free and correctly day after right this moment then i've got confidence the McCanns could have been charged via the Portugese police. And rightly so. whether, i think of the police are the two waiting to cost them with a greater extreme crime or probable will cost them with ignore at a later degree. in the event that they have been to cost the McCanns with ignore proper now, there could make specific infuential people and different wellmeaning people shouting that the McCanns had suffered adequate because of the loss of their daughter and that i think of public opinion could turn fairly of their favour. Be common, can any make certain obtainable tell me something greater devastating than the shortcoming of YOUR toddler? Social centers have curiously visited the kinfolk, and have been chuffed that the twins have been in no danger. properly, permit's settle for it, they're under the spotlight proper now, it may be thoroughly stupid to go away the twins on my own. in simple terms because it grow to be thoroughly stupid to go away all 3 toddlers on my own that nighttime.

Answer 4

I never did. But my daughter was a genius at getting HERSELF unattended--and me a single working mom!

At age 10, she would take the schoolbus home to stay by herself instead of going to the afterschool program I signed her up for. She told them I didn't want her to attend. It was a whole MONTH before I figured out what was going on.

Then, I got the next-door neighbor to look after her because she was getting the schoolbus home but she started telling the neighbor I had come home already and stayed in the house alone until just before I got home, then went back next door so I could 'pick her up' (the little cunning bugger).

But she was well trained. The rules were: no answering the door (except for fire or police) no turning on the stove or microwave, no guests, no taking a bath when mom was not at home, even if she was with a sitter. When she was disobeying me, she did follow the rules in order to maintain a low profile.

I did finally find a way to keep her supervised after school by getting the mom of one of her little friends to watch her.

But if anything had happened to her while she was deceiving me, I would have been heartbroken.

Answer 5

My son is 4 and i could never dream of leaving him unattended for anything not even a trip to the mail box. My sisters are 8 and 10 and still are never ever left unatteded for any reason. Children dont always make the best decissions and should never be left alone even for 5 minutes. Think about it, what if in that 10 minute trip to the store your child falls an hurts themselves and you are not there to help, or they try an make themselves something to eat an burn the house down.. ok so they know not to use the stove? what if they decide to stick tin foil in the microwave? Anything can happen and my childs life and safety are way more important than a trip to the store.

Answer 6

Never - i have more common sense than to leave my 3 babies unattended.
Anything could happen!!
I stay at home. My kids are 3 years. 18 months and 14 weeks.
If i need anything from the store, my husband picks it up on his way home.
I always keep an eye on our milk and snacks and such and when i see things are getting low either i go shopping when my husband gets home or he picks it up.
Never would i leave my kids, and hell no i'm not lieing, and hell no i'm not exaggerating as someone on the first page stated!
My kids safety comes first, they come before, groceries, friends, meals, the phone!!!
There is a peodophile in our street and i don't want to take any chances, there have been reports of attmpted break ins, well, if i go to my mail box, it only takes a few seconds for someone to sneek out of my bushes and through my door. They've attempted to break in before, what won't stop them while i'm out!
My mum left me twice when i was 3 to go to the corner shop. She often left me actually, and the fear that swept through me was unbearable. I would never wish that on my babies!

Answer 7

If you saying pop to the corner shop and the child be left like 2ft maybe or so.... BUT the McCann left them 3 little kids alone by 50 Yards which is a big dif-ent to a 2 ft.

Answer 8

Someone has already mentioned it...but what about the holiday camps when children were left in their chalets..oh yes there was a baby checking service whereby all children were checked perhaps every two hours......two hours.

No we ought not be so judgemental as we will all have left our children without even realising it. Bringing in the washing off of the line...speaking to someone over the garden fence whilst the kids were supposedly asleep upstairs...but we had left the front door off the latch so anyone could walk in and take them away.

Please lets not be so sanctimonius.

Answer 9

Never have and I would never even consider it. I have four kids, and there are times when I have needed something from the corner shop. If the kids were up they ALL went with me, if they were in bed then I went without. I don't agree with any child being left alone, my neighbours daughter left her baby asleep in the cot when she was four months old, she came back and checked on her she looked fine she wasn't though. The angels had come and taken her, in her sleep.She had been gone just 4 minutes in all. She couldn't live with the guilt and she killed herself. That was a lesson to every mum who knew the family. So you see I never would.

Answer 10

I'm sure that some of the halo's would slip and choke them as you know for sure that more people leave their children unattended than they are letting on. Anyone can tell a bare faced lie on here as nobody is giving them direct eye contact and they wouldn't want to be seen as it classed as neglect no matter what colour you paint it.

I still see children sitting outside supermarkets while their mums are inside shopping but the holier than holy on here will lie and deny it.

Of course they leave them unattended

Answer 11

I dont have kids but I used to provide a babysitting programme for people in my street when i was 16, and I can honestly say I have never left a kid alone in my care even if i was popping across the street. Whose to say that why i popped across the street for two minutes a child in my care could be seriously injured at home