Age to leave child alone sleeping in hotel room to go downstairs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My husband and I left our sleeping teen/tween (13 and 10) in the hotel room while we were on vacation last week so we could get a late night work out in in the fitness center a floor up. Never even occurred to me that this would be a problem. What exactly do y'all think is at risk of happening? Our 13 year old will go to NYC in June for an 8th grade class trip and they stay in hotel rooms without chaperones in the room. If she can handle a whole three nights with three other 13/14 year olds, I think she can handle a few hours?!

Rational people agree with you.

If only you were one of the rational ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t typically stay in hotels that have bars/lounges but I started leaving my kid sleeping in the morning to go out to pick up coffee starting when they were about 10. The likelihood that anyone who has access to the room would access it is so close to zero there’s no sense worrying about it.

^Sanity. It’s refreshing.

If you need to go to a bar to have sanity, you have bigger issues.

Yeah. Literally no one said that.

Literally, like literally is so literally literal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My husband and I left our sleeping teen/tween (13 and 10) in the hotel room while we were on vacation last week so we could get a late night work out in in the fitness center a floor up. Never even occurred to me that this would be a problem. What exactly do y'all think is at risk of happening? Our 13 year old will go to NYC in June for an 8th grade class trip and they stay in hotel rooms without chaperones in the room. If she can handle a whole three nights with three other 13/14 year olds, I think she can handle a few hours?!

Her kid is not an 8th grader. She said she would put her kid to sleep. Do you put your 13 y/o to sleep? No. OP’s child is way younger. Your kids are fine.

Okay but literally what are you afraid is going to happen

[Anonymous]

Has a child left in a hotel room by themselves ever been harmed by a hotel employee that had access to the room?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I left our sleeping teen/tween (13 and 10) in the hotel room while we were on vacation last week so we could get a late night work out in in the fitness center a floor up. Never even occurred to me that this would be a problem. What exactly do y'all think is at risk of happening? Our 13 year old will go to NYC in June for an 8th grade class trip and they stay in hotel rooms without chaperones in the room. If she can handle a whole three nights with three other 13/14 year olds, I think she can handle a few hours?!

Her kid is not an 8th grader. She said she would put her kid to sleep. Do you put your 13 y/o to sleep? No. OP’s child is way younger. Your kids are fine.

Okay but literally what are you afraid is going to happen

I honestly think bored women are trying to be dramatic about this. It’s NBD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We left our responsible 13 and 15 yr olds in our hotel room while we attended a wedding in the same hotel. They loved it. Movies and room service (ordered and delivered while a parent was in the room). We took turns checking on them. It seemed better than leaving them home alone for an adults only wedding out of town, and we had no family to lean on.

Agree, PP.

12 and up would work, OP.

I was latchkey, though, so I’d have been fine as a child.

Latchkey kids are in houses where dozens of random people don’t have access with a key and no, the deadbolt in a hotel by design does not keep staff out.

[Anonymous]

How old is your kid? I'd probably be fine with it at 12 or so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We left our responsible 13 and 15 yr olds in our hotel room while we attended a wedding in the same hotel. They loved it. Movies and room service (ordered and delivered while a parent was in the room). We took turns checking on them. It seemed better than leaving them home alone for an adults only wedding out of town, and we had no family to lean on.

Agree, PP.

12 and up would work, OP.

I was latchkey, though, so I’d have been fine as a child.

Latchkey kids are in houses where dozens of random people don’t have access with a key and no, the deadbolt in a hotel by design does not keep staff out.

where exactly are you staying where random people/hotel staff are just coming into your room when you are asleep? I've spent probably 1000 or more nights in hotel rooms over the course of my life and this has never once happened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left our responsible 13 and 15 yr olds in our hotel room while we attended a wedding in the same hotel. They loved it. Movies and room service (ordered and delivered while a parent was in the room). We took turns checking on them. It seemed better than leaving them home alone for an adults only wedding out of town, and we had no family to lean on.

Agree, PP.

12 and up would work, OP.

I was latchkey, though, so I’d have been fine as a child.

Latchkey kids are in houses where dozens of random people don’t have access with a key and no, the deadbolt in a hotel by design does not keep staff out.

Can you please elaborate on a scenario where someone with a key would access the room? What are you afraid will actually happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I left our sleeping teen/tween (13 and 10) in the hotel room while we were on vacation last week so we could get a late night work out in in the fitness center a floor up. Never even occurred to me that this would be a problem. What exactly do y'all think is at risk of happening? Our 13 year old will go to NYC in June for an 8th grade class trip and they stay in hotel rooms without chaperones in the room. If she can handle a whole three nights with three other 13/14 year olds, I think she can handle a few hours?!

Her kid is not an 8th grader. She said she would put her kid to sleep. Do you put your 13 y/o to sleep? No. OP’s child is way younger. Your kids are fine.

Okay but literally what are you afraid is going to happen

I didn’t say I was afraid of anything. But I have been in a hotel, asleep, and the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night. My kids slept through it. We had to wake them and carry them down the stairwell. I’m not saying this is common or likely to happen. But it would be pretty horrific if I were down in the lobby, could not ride elevator up to get child, child possibly sleeping through alarms/phone calls, feeling helpless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We left our responsible 13 and 15 yr olds in our hotel room while we attended a wedding in the same hotel. They loved it. Movies and room service (ordered and delivered while a parent was in the room). We took turns checking on them. It seemed better than leaving them home alone for an adults only wedding out of town, and we had no family to lean on.

Agree, PP.

12 and up would work, OP.

I was latchkey, though, so I’d have been fine as a child.

Latchkey kids are in houses where dozens of random people don’t have access with a key and no, the deadbolt in a hotel by design does not keep staff out.

So don’t do it.

OP and others aren’t as high strung, so they’ll be able to enjoy a nice break for an hour or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I left our sleeping teen/tween (13 and 10) in the hotel room while we were on vacation last week so we could get a late night work out in in the fitness center a floor up. Never even occurred to me that this would be a problem. What exactly do y'all think is at risk of happening? Our 13 year old will go to NYC in June for an 8th grade class trip and they stay in hotel rooms without chaperones in the room. If she can handle a whole three nights with three other 13/14 year olds, I think she can handle a few hours?!

Her kid is not an 8th grader. She said she would put her kid to sleep. Do you put your 13 y/o to sleep? No. OP’s child is way younger. Your kids are fine.

Okay but literally what are you afraid is going to happen

I didn’t say I was afraid of anything. But I have been in a hotel, asleep, and the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night. My kids slept through it. We had to wake them and carry them down the stairwell. I’m not saying this is common or likely to happen. But it would be pretty horrific if I were down in the lobby, could not ride elevator up to get child, child possibly sleeping through alarms/phone calls, feeling helpless.

Dramatic. 🙄🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I left our sleeping teen/tween (13 and 10) in the hotel room while we were on vacation last week so we could get a late night work out in in the fitness center a floor up. Never even occurred to me that this would be a problem. What exactly do y'all think is at risk of happening? Our 13 year old will go to NYC in June for an 8th grade class trip and they stay in hotel rooms without chaperones in the room. If she can handle a whole three nights with three other 13/14 year olds, I think she can handle a few hours?!

Her kid is not an 8th grader. She said she would put her kid to sleep. Do you put your 13 y/o to sleep? No. OP’s child is way younger. Your kids are fine.

Okay but literally what are you afraid is going to happen

I didn’t say I was afraid of anything. But I have been in a hotel, asleep, and the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night. My kids slept through it. We had to wake them and carry them down the stairwell. I’m not saying this is common or likely to happen. But it would be pretty horrific if I were down in the lobby, could not ride elevator up to get child, child possibly sleeping through alarms/phone calls, feeling helpless.

You would take the stairs and go get your kid. It would be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I left our sleeping teen/tween (13 and 10) in the hotel room while we were on vacation last week so we could get a late night work out in in the fitness center a floor up. Never even occurred to me that this would be a problem. What exactly do y'all think is at risk of happening? Our 13 year old will go to NYC in June for an 8th grade class trip and they stay in hotel rooms without chaperones in the room. If she can handle a whole three nights with three other 13/14 year olds, I think she can handle a few hours?!

Her kid is not an 8th grader. She said she would put her kid to sleep. Do you put your 13 y/o to sleep? No. OP’s child is way younger. Your kids are fine.

Okay but literally what are you afraid is going to happen

I didn’t say I was afraid of anything. But I have been in a hotel, asleep, and the fire alarms went off in the middle of the night. My kids slept through it. We had to wake them and carry them down the stairwell. I’m not saying this is common or likely to happen. But it would be pretty horrific if I were down in the lobby, could not ride elevator up to get child, child possibly sleeping through alarms/phone calls, feeling helpless.

Dramatic. 🙄🙄

Ironically, you are dramatic with your multiple posts aimed to provoke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I left our sleeping teen/tween (13 and 10) in the hotel room while we were on vacation last week so we could get a late night work out in in the fitness center a floor up. Never even occurred to me that this would be a problem. What exactly do y'all think is at risk of happening? Our 13 year old will go to NYC in June for an 8th grade class trip and they stay in hotel rooms without chaperones in the room. If she can handle a whole three nights with three other 13/14 year olds, I think she can handle a few hours?!

Her kid is not an 8th grader. She said she would put her kid to sleep. Do you put your 13 y/o to sleep? No. OP’s child is way younger. Your kids are fine.

Okay but literally what are you afraid is going to happen

I honestly think bored women are trying to be dramatic about this. It’s NBD.

It must be, because none of them will explain how exactly they think Paul the night auditor is going to kidnap their kids