We've got it handled
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
September 5, 2012 7:11pm CST
is what I told the resident experts wife as I had been dreading that moment for the past few weeks.
You see they were going to watch the girls a few mornings before the bus came. As my Son has to be at school before the girls have to be at the bus but I'd never make it back home in time or I'd get caught in traffic cross town. It was cool until......... the other week when the girls ran in the house and said the child was home alone. I'm like yeah right you guys are exaggerating. My kids were in the house most of the afternoon but then they wanted to go out and I was out checking things out with them. I saw the child peek outside for a few minutes then we saw the experts wife comming up the parking lot across the highway from our house. NOT COOL! 
If your child doesn't want to go to the store I feel there are a few options: 1. make the child go with you 2. skip going 3. wait til your spouse gets home then go 4. ask me to watch the child for a few minutes
If your child doesn't want to go to the store I feel there are a few options: 1. make the child go with you 2. skip going 3. wait til your spouse gets home then go 4. ask me to watch the child for a few minutes1 person likes this
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
6 Sep 12
You do have a point. Kids are not really capable of even walking to school anymore. I've heard another mom who lives 3 blocks away from school cry why they don't send a bus. Not that they walk their kids, they drive them to school. I'd love to walk my kids to school if we were close enough and had sidewalks.
I didn't walk to school by myself til I was 10. But I think sometimes some of that is between being lazy and of course the worry of all the "preditors" out in the world.
@OpinionatedLady (5965)
• United States
6 Sep 12
Interesting how as our society ages the allowable age to be self sufficient degrades. I was home alone at this age. I know my parents where as well as their parents. Now though, it is an illegal offense to leave a child under the age of 13 ( in pa anyway) alone. I do not leave my 7 yr old alone but what does it say about society that we no longer raise our kids to be capable of being home alone. I mean how many kids at that age used to walk to school by themselves?
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
6 Sep 12
Is this the same one who's relative didn't know they hadn't gotten off the bus for 45 mins? If so.. no surprise. If not.. you gotta get out of that neighborhood!!
How old is the kid?
What are you doing with your girls now? Is she still watching them or what?
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
6 Sep 12
YEP. We've often said we miss the man who lived there before. The child is 6.5yrs. They go to breakfast at school the days hubby is working.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
6 Sep 12
I take my kids with everywhere unless hubby is home. If your kids said they weren't going you'd either tell them too bad so sad your going or wait til you could go alone. Supposidly the child didn't want to go to the store.
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
6 Sep 12
Yeah that's too young to stay home alone, even for a few minutes. As someone who's had to bring 5 kids to the grocery stores.. I really don't see why it's a big deal to bring your child with you instead of leaving it home alone.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Sep 12
well think the resident expert's wife is a slacker for leaving a small child home alone ever.your options should have been in
that moms mind from the git go.make the child go with you
or ask someone like you to stay with that little child til mom
came home.What was she thinking as a accident can happen in seconds with a child home alone.
thats what I think of that mom,not cool at all.
thats what I think of that mom,not cool at all.1 person likes this
@jenny1015 (13359)
• Philippines
6 Sep 12
It is so unwise to leave your 3 year old child alone in the house. What was your neighbor thinking? I couldn' t leave my son alone even when he is 8 years old! The experts's wife must be thinking that she holds everything accirding to what she wants things to happen that she didn' t even think what migjt happen to her child while she was away.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
6 Sep 12
I don't think she was. The child is not 3, 6.5yrs but still to my knowledge they can't be home even a small amt of time til they are abt 12.
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@toniganzon (77139)
• Philippines
6 Sep 12
Wow! How can she live a child alone. She really have several option so how could she be that irresponsible. There are so many things that can happen when the child is alone and it's really dangerous. I wouldn't really take that risk.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
10 Sep 12
I'd like to know if she was thinking at all. I'd love to give my true reason as to why but I'm thinking I'd like to do that with her husband present because he may get upset with her over it. But then again he rides his mower with her in his lap which is dangerous and I've seen her in the front seat of the van. So IDK
@STOUTjodee (3670)
• United States
7 Sep 12
It's definitely NOT COOL1 I see this happen at gas stations, granted the car might be within their view sight when they're in the store, but it only takes a few seconds more time for them to get the child out of a car seat and bring them in. I never left my children out of my sight. I think it might be laziness on the part of the parent or they just don't have the time/patience to deal with their child in public.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
10 Sep 12
I remember being left in the car at the gas station when I was a kid. Thank goodness they have pay at the pump now 
But the other year someone stole a car while the woman was paying for her gas and the thief didn't see the child in the back. Thankfully the child was unharmed!
But the other year someone stole a car while the woman was paying for her gas and the thief didn't see the child in the back. Thankfully the child was unharmed!
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
8 Sep 12
Yes young children should never be left alone, even if nothing happens sometimes they are just afraid. It might be against the law as well, depending upon where you live.
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
9 Sep 12
That really is too young to be left home alone--especially if the house is near a busy road. The minimum legal age varies by state, but even beyond that one has to take into account the child's maturity level. It is unlikely, even if it isn't illegal in your state (which it most likely is), that a child that age is really capable of staying home alone even for a short period of time.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
8 Sep 12
There is no way that I would ever consider leaving my children at home alone because of the fact that they are just not responsible enough to be left at home alone, not even for a few minutes.
If I hadn't already been that way, the fact that one of my best friends lost two of his children in a house fire when his ex-wife left the three children at home alone with their mentally disabled uncle and the middle child (the only of the three young children that survived) caught some curtains on fire when trying to stoke the fire.
