Leaving sleeping kid in hotel room....

[Anonymous]

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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.

Honestly, anyone thinking it’s OK to do this should get a CPS visit.

[Anonymous]

Never. Always a bad idea. Kid can easily be kidnapped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never. Always a bad idea. Kid can easily be kidnapped.

Because kidnappings happen all the time.

[Anonymous]

I really don’t understand why you don’t hire a sitter!!?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never. Always a bad idea. Kid can easily be kidnapped.

Because kidnappings happen all the time.

have you ever heard of sex slaves??? Little kids get kidnapped in Asia all the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never. Always a bad idea. Kid can easily be kidnapped.

Because kidnappings happen all the time.

Fires do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never. Always a bad idea. Kid can easily be kidnapped.

Because kidnappings happen all the time.

Fires do.

But fires can happen overnight in a part of a house that I can't get to. Or it could happen between me and my DD room. When you rent a house, is it okay to go sit out at the fire pit? Or sit on the dock and have a drink? Do I really need to be hovering over my child 100% of the time?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never. Always a bad idea. Kid can easily be kidnapped.

Because kidnappings happen all the time.

Fires do.

Yeah, you're probably right. At least 25% of hotels in America burned to the ground last year. And many thousands died in hotel fires.

Oh wait, here's the actual statistics. I think the key takeaway is to sternly tell your three year old that he's not allowed to cook while you're out getting drinks.


Findings
? Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 3,900 hotel and motel fires were
reported to fire departments within the United States. These fires caused an
estimated 15 deaths, 100 injuries, and $100 million in property losses.
? Of all residential building fires, only 1 percent were hotel and motel fires. More
than half (56 percent) of hotel and motel fires were small, confined fires.
? Hotel and motel fires occurred mainly in the evening hours, peaking from 6 to
9 p.m. (19 percent).
? Cooking was the leading cause of hotel and motel fires (55 percent). Almost all
hotel and motel cooking fires were small, confined fires (95 percent).
? In 22 percent of nonconfined hotel and motel fires, the fires extended beyond
the room of origin. The leading causes of these larger fires were open flames (13
percent), electrical malfunctions (13 percent), and other unintentional or careless
actions (13 percent). In contrast, 50 percent of all nonconfined fires in all other
residential buildings extended beyond the room of origin.
? Bedrooms were the primary area of fire origin of nonconfined hotel and motel fires
(21 percent). When confined cooking fires were considered, the kitchen or other
cooking areas were the most prevalent areas of fire origin of all hotel and motel fires.
? The leading reported factor contributing to ignition of nonconfined hotel and
motel fires was misuse of material or product (40 percent).
? Smoke alarms were not present in 10 percent of nonconfined fires in occupied
hotels and motels. Additionally, automatic extinguishing systems (AESs) were not
present in 45 percent of reported nonconfined fires in occupied hotels and motels.

[Anonymous]

I would not for a 3 year old. We recently started doing this with a 7 YO. She understands the rules about not opening the door for strangers etc. and we leave her one of our cell phones which she knows how to use to call the other parent. We also show her how to call the front desk on the hotel phone.

[Anonymous]

I would also recommend getting connecting rooms with your friends or family. We used to always do then so we could put sleeping kids in one room and adults in the other.

[Anonymous]

It's illegal. Point blank. A 3 year old can also easily crawl out of a crib, especially a portable one.

Really it comes down to what's more important, a drink or your kid? Yeah there's a chance nothing happens, but there's a chance something does. And if something does happen how are you gonna feel if something seriously bad happens to your kid because you weren't there?

[Anonymous]

If you need a drink that badly that you'd leave your 3 yo alone in a hotel to go to a bar, you are an alcoholic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's illegal. Point blank. A 3 year old can also easily crawl out of a crib, especially a portable one.

Really it comes down to what's more important, a drink or your kid? Yeah there's a chance nothing happens, but there's a chance something does. And if something does happen how are you gonna feel if something seriously bad happens to your kid because you weren't there?

It's not illegal. POINT BLANK. Not illegal in DC and Virginia, and that law talks about "at home" not at a hotel when you're in the same building as the child. OP is obviously going on vacation, likely out of state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never. Always a bad idea. Kid can easily be kidnapped.

Because kidnappings happen all the time.

Fires do.

Yeah, you're probably right. At least 25% of hotels in America burned to the ground last year. And many thousands died in hotel fires.

Oh wait, here's the actual statistics. I think the key takeaway is to sternly tell your three year old that he's not allowed to cook while you're out getting drinks.


Findings
? Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 3,900 hotel and motel fires were
reported to fire departments within the United States. These fires caused an
estimated 15 deaths, 100 injuries, and $100 million in property losses.
? Of all residential building fires, only 1 percent were hotel and motel fires. More
than half (56 percent) of hotel and motel fires were small, confined fires.
? Hotel and motel fires occurred mainly in the evening hours, peaking from 6 to
9 p.m. (19 percent).
? Cooking was the leading cause of hotel and motel fires (55 percent). Almost all
hotel and motel cooking fires were small, confined fires (95 percent).
? In 22 percent of nonconfined hotel and motel fires, the fires extended beyond
the room of origin. The leading causes of these larger fires were open flames (13
percent), electrical malfunctions (13 percent), and other unintentional or careless
actions (13 percent). In contrast, 50 percent of all nonconfined fires in all other
residential buildings extended beyond the room of origin.
? Bedrooms were the primary area of fire origin of nonconfined hotel and motel fires
(21 percent). When confined cooking fires were considered, the kitchen or other
cooking areas were the most prevalent areas of fire origin of all hotel and motel fires.
? The leading reported factor contributing to ignition of nonconfined hotel and
motel fires was misuse of material or product (40 percent).
? Smoke alarms were not present in 10 percent of nonconfined fires in occupied
hotels and motels. Additionally, automatic extinguishing systems (AESs) were not
present in 45 percent of reported nonconfined fires in occupied hotels and motels.

This site makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills sometimes. Y’all will lose your sh*t over someone feeding your kid Fruit Rollups at a playdate, will crowdsource “the best lunchbox,” yet will leave your toddler alone in a hotel room to go drink in a bar. It’s like you all focus on all the million tiny stupid things on parenting that don’t matter and on the big stuff completely whiff it.

[Anonymous]

Here is the practical reason not to do it. Your child is a great sleeper at home in their own environment. Mine are too. In a strange place, you can't count on that. When your kid wakes at home (which they do because they are human), they roll over and go back to sleep. They might not do that in a strange place. If your kid wakes up and you're not there, it will REALLY freak your child out. Best case in that scenario, your monitor is working and you high tail it up to the room and the kid has stayed in the room and surrounding rooms hear the kid screaming and possibly report it and you have a traumatized kid. That's your best case. Worst case, your monitor doesn't work or you don't notice it straight away (because your not staring at it...your having drinks) and kid is screaming for some longer amount of time and you have no clue and neighbors hear it or the kid starts wandering in the hall after getting out of the crib. Then you're in serious trouble.

Yes, there is kidnapping, fires, terrorist acts, etc. Those are unlikely, but should be considered. Above is too likely to take the risk.

Get a sitter through the hotel.