Leaving sleeping kid in hotel room....

[Anonymous]

This is where you just need to be a parent and do the right thing. You aren't young and free anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way. Do you know how many people have access to a hotel room?

This. Just split your time with your friends or switch-off -wives at bar together and husbands with beers in the room, then reverse.

[Anonymous]

Nope.

BUT that doesn't mean that you have to stay in a dark hotel room after 7pm.

Ask at the desk for rooms with an adjoining door. If you have a suite, you sit in the living room of one suite, and let the babies sleep in the respective bedrooms.

Failing that, I would be comfortable with the 3yo in the room next door, with a monitor.

If you can't get adjoining rooms, put the kids to sleep in the same bedroom; adults hang out in the living room. When the adults are ready to wrap it up, you transport a sleeping child back to their own room.

[Anonymous]

No, it is illegal and unwise.

Hire the hotel nanny.

I am a safety professional. It really worries me that you are already trying to push the envelope for your convenience. Please put your child's interests first.

[Anonymous]

WTH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never do that! What a horrible idea! Get a suite or adjoining room with friends. Who leaves a young child in a hotel room and goes to a bar???

Calm down - it’s the hotel bar.

The kids are in the same building. Request a room on the second floor and it’s no different than watching tv downstairs at home while toddler sleeps in his room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never do that! What a horrible idea! Get a suite or adjoining room with friends. Who leaves a young child in a hotel room and goes to a bar???

Calm down - it’s the hotel bar.

The kids are in the same building. Request a room on the second floor and it’s no different than watching tv downstairs at home while toddler sleeps in his room.

Get a clue. It’s a lot different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neither of you should leave a 3 yo child alone. However, there is a simple solution. Put them to bed together in one of your rooms, then have your drink in the suite sitting room. When you're done, the other sleeping child gets carried back by parents.

This.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe anyone would even consider it as an option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never do that! What a horrible idea! Get a suite or adjoining room with friends. Who leaves a young child in a hotel room and goes to a bar???

Calm down - it’s the hotel bar.

The kids are in the same building. Request a room on the second floor and it’s no different than watching tv downstairs at home while toddler sleeps in his room.

Get a clue. It’s a lot different.

No kidding. Holy moly.

- abductions (YES, people can and do get into hotel rooms, way more than most people realize)
- fire (elevators are locked down and you can't run up the stairs against a panicking mob when they're all running down)
- medical emergencies (yours or theirs)
- terror attack or bomb threat (and they don't let you back up)

and most likely

- child waking up screaming and scared in a strange room because you abandoned him/her, and then having trust issues from then on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never do that! What a horrible idea! Get a suite or adjoining room with friends. Who leaves a young child in a hotel room and goes to a bar???

Calm down - it’s the hotel bar.

The kids are in the same building. Request a room on the second floor and it’s no different than watching tv downstairs at home while toddler sleeps in his room.

Get a clue. It’s a lot different.

+1

If your 3 year old wanders out of his bedroom looking for you in your home, he doesn’t encounter strangers. Best case scenario, in a hotel, the strangers are well-meaning and take your child to security. Worse case, they take your child and kill him.

[Anonymous]

Hell no.

[Anonymous]

Bad idea. Would you leave your 3 year old in the house alone? Same thing. So many things can go wrong. A drink at the bar isn't worth it.

[Anonymous]

Why have kids just to be selfish and neglect them? Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never do that! What a horrible idea! Get a suite or adjoining room with friends. Who leaves a young child in a hotel room and goes to a bar???

Calm down - it’s the hotel bar.

The kids are in the same building. Request a room on the second floor and it’s no different than watching tv downstairs at home while toddler sleeps in his room.

Get a clue. It’s a lot different.

+1

If your 3 year old wanders out of his bedroom looking for you in your home, he doesn’t encounter strangers. Best case scenario, in a hotel, the strangers are well-meaning and take your child to security. Worse case, they take your child and kill him.

... and even if they take the child to security, the parents could be looking at a CPS case. Especially once they're found getting plastered in the bar.