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[quote=Anonymous]Assuming your sixth grade child was 1) mature and responsible, 2) way larger and older-looking than the average middle school student, and 3) had a cell phone to easily reach you, and 4) you were only going to be 2-to-3 minutes away by car for an appointment, would you ever consider dropping him/her off at an upscale grocery store with tons of customer service in a very safe neighborhood with a shopping list so that he/she could fill the cart up while you attend the appointment?

I've recently been diagnosed with a serious illness requiring frequent doctor trips, and between the health stuff, regular life chores like grocery shopping and housework, parenting, working almost full time, and trying to rebuild my crumbling marriage, I feel like I could really use some extra help.  My eldest has been great about pitching in with laundry and babysitting when needed, but tonight DH and I need to go to counseling AND the to grocery store (if we don't, he and his brother won't have breakfast/lunches for the week), and I'm wondering if it would be out of line to ask DS 11 to fill up the cart while his dad and I are at our appointment.  We leave him at home alone or watching his brother pretty often for an hour or so, with no issues.  This would be almost exactly an hour, and he'd be occupied searching for the objects on the list and putting them in the cart, without the complication of being responsible for his brother (who has child care for tonight).  That way, when we arrived to pick him up, we'd just have to pay for the groceries and go home rather than having to go to counseling, then shop for another hour, THEN drive home.  "Two birds, one stone" kind of thing.

Is this a crazy idea?  Please be kind about your response.  It's okay to say you think it's a bad idea, but please don't call me a bad parent.  I am doing the best I can in a really shitty situation, and I wouldn't be asking for a gut check here if I didn't care about doing the right thing.[/quote]

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