On a scale of 1-1o, how bad of a parent would this

[textbookcase]

make me? I need to run to the store to pick something up for a breakfast casserole I'm making for church tomorrow. The store is catty-corner from my house, across a main street. I can see the house from the store window (it's a small market) and we live in a small town. The baby is sleeping, the girls (8 and 5) are watching a movie. It would take no more than 5-7ish minutes. I can't go, can I? H won't be back until way later and I want to make the casserole before I go to bed! Bah!

[OHMBLEEGOHHHHH!]

I don't think I would do it. But I would be VERY tempted.

[eddy]

Ugh I wouldn't but I would really want to. Do you have a neighbor who could come over for a second?

[miss1991]

No something bad could happen in five minutes.

[textbookcase]

I don't know any neighbors We just moved here in May and no one speaks English.

[textbookcase]

I won't go, but I am very tempted!

[Deleted]

I wouldn't do it.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Eh, small town and you can see the house the whole time? I'd do it. To me it is like going out in the yard for 15 minutes to clean up after the kids are asleep.

[Deleted]

Does your 8 year old know what to do if anything happens while you're gone?

I'm not a parent, so my advice should be taken with a grain of salt. If it's something that can wait, I would wait. If it was urgently important, I would base it on how knowledgeable your 8 year old is if something were to happen.

[mamasaurus]

6 maybe? I wouldn't do it. If I did, one of the birds would be eating the curtains and the baby would pick that moment to learn to crawl and somehow find her way into the diaper genie, which would of course be full of poopy diapers. That's just what would happen.

[textbookcase]

Aug 4, 2012 21:43:09 GMT -5 @pixiechinchilla said:

Does your 8 year old know what to do if anything happens while you're gone?

I'm not a parent, so my advice should be taken with a grain of salt. If it's something that can wait, I would wait. If it was urgently important, I would base it on how knowledgeable your 8 year old is if something were to happen.

She's very responsible and has all emergency numbers written in her room. I'm not going to go, though. I will just get up earlier tomorrow morning to make it.

[hubes]

I would probably do it, if the doors were locked, you had your cell phone and your oldest daughter knew to call you. In the winter I leave T asleep in the house to do chores on occasion.

[textbookcase]

Aug 4, 2012 21:44:53 GMT -5 mamasaurus said:

6 maybe? I wouldn't do it. If I did, one of the birds would be eating the curtains and the baby would pick that moment to learn to crawl and somehow find her way into the diaper genie, which would of course be full of poopy diapers. That's just what would happen.

LOL! I could see my 5 yo getting into a boatload of trouble.

[hubes]

Can you call the store so they have the ingredient waiting for you at the check out?

[textbookcase]

I think I'm just going to call my friend to see if she can go get it for me. She's just a few blocks away.

[sonrisa]

Can you drag the 5 and 8 year old and the baby monitor with you? I garden while the baby sleeps without guilt. This doesn't sound that much farther than mowing by the back fence.

[karmasabiotch]

You shouldn't go. Anything can happen in just a few seconds. A curch breakfast isn't worth it at all. I think it could also be CPS worthy but they would only go after you of something did happen.

Please don't do it.