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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We leave our 5 year old alone in a different room in our house if we need to put the baby to sleep and there’s only one adult around. That can take 20 mins sometimes. My nanny even does this during the day if the 5yo is home from school. I don’t think that’s so different from taking a 20 min nap as long as you can hear her. If you could close the door to the bedroom and have her play something in the room while you take a quick nap and ask her not to leave the room unless she wakes you, would she listen? Mine is pretty good about listening and doesn’t get into things for the most part. [/quote]

Disagree, I think it’s totally different. I’m a light sleeper but it’s not the same. You can’t count on waking up. Especially because unexpected silence is as problematic as unexpected noise. [/quote]

This.  Plus this isn’t the mother.  It’s a 14 yr old.  It doesn’t matter how well you think the 5 yr listens, you don’t sleep if you are there to supervise.  If the child listens well enough for OP to even be considering just going sleep, she listens well enough that she can occupy herself while OP gets some homework done.   Whether or not OP should be babysitting this kid at all is entirely separate from why OP is getting 5 hrs of sleep at night.  I’m not seeing any reason why OP can’t get her homework done and get to bed earlier.   [/quote]

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