Would your child be safe if...

i have dozzed off a few times while my 2 youngest are napping and my oldest is up. he will be watching a movie or coloring and i will sleep for a few minutes but not while my youngest ones are up.

I can honestly say that I did doze off a few times when my son was small. I think when he turned about 3-4 was when I would doze off sometimes. But he would usually be watching his cartoons or such and I'm a very light sleeper. I can remember when he was little I had a terrible time sleeping at night because I was always worried about him getting sick, or getting into something. I also used to worry about him waking up before me in the morning. I think when he hit 3 or 4 I was tired enough that I would just fall asleep on the couch when he was watching t.v.

Well, my kids are 10 and 14 now, but when I was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia my kids were a newborn and a three year old. The first five years of my illness were the worst and I would fall asleep on the couch often. One time my baby was in the crib napping but my daughter was playing with a neighbour, supervised by her mother. The mother invited her to go to the store and told her to ask her mother. My daughter didn't want to wake me so she just went with them. I woke up and I couldn't find my daughter (3 or 4 years old) anywhere. I was running up and down the street, frantic, until I saw them come around the corner. On another occasion when they were a little older, I fell asleep on the couch and the two of them went into the laundry room and dumped laundry detergent powder on the floor, walked through it and traipsed it through the house. No, not really a good idea to leave your children unsupervised at such young ages.

My son is only 16 months old, and I can't imagine letting him run around the whole house unsupervised for quite some time still. The only room we allow him to play in without supervision is his room. We do a pretty good job of baby proofing most areas in our house, and our son knows what he is and isn't allowed to play with. But sometimes it's just too tempting for little kids to get into stuff, so I don't think I will be letting him run around the whole house for another few years.

Well, I have laid down on the couch with a cold compress on my head before while my toddler would play on the floor. Whenever I would get a migraine when my son was little I would take my meds and then lay on the couch. I never fell asleep, I would just lay there and watch him play on the floor. I also put up baby gates so he couldn't get out of the living room. I cannot imagine actually sleeping and letting him run around alone. He is 5 now, and I still wouldn't do it.

During my second pregnancy there were days when I just absolutely had to get a nap in. I would never just let my son run around the house though. When he was too little to open doors we would go into his room, shut the door, and i could get a quick nap on the floor while he played next to me. When he got bigger I used the gates to block him off. I always make sure we are in a safe room, that he can't escape, and that there is nothing dangerous that he could get into. Not that he would let me sleep for long anyway. LOL

I have a 5 year old son...he would probably be fine for me to lay down on the couch and go to sleep...BUT I am unwilling to test the theory... I have a daughter-in-law who is unable/unwilling to supervise her 4 children while she is on the computer...it makes me furious.....

Yes, I do it sometime,but my daughter very innocent & very cool child. So I do it but, if child naughty bound to do anything worse then that mom can`t even think of doing it.I think that will not even get sleep