Anonymous wrote:Oldest is 7 and you have a monitor? I totally would. You would hear if anything happened in the house, and your 7 year old would call out to you anyway if he/she or either sibling needed something.

Guess I'm the lone voice of dissent here, so you should probably ignore my opinion. But when I was quite young (somewhere between 3 and 7) my parent would do something similar whenever we were on vacation -- they would leave a monitor in the hotel room for me and my younger brother then head down to the lobby restaurant for dinner. Seemed to work out fine.

If you're just across the street you're barely any further from the kids than if you were downstairs in the house -- maybe 90 seconds at most if you ran, which you would in an emergency.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad to hear OP double teamed it and was able to get out for some adult time and nothing happened.

Anonymous wrote:Whoever took the little McCann girl was likely watching her parents and figured out they had left the children alone. How well do you know your neighbors? You never know when someone decides to take advantage of a situation where your children are vulnerable because an opportunity suddenly presents itself and the idea comes into their sick heads. I am generally pretty laid back but wouldn't take a risk like this regardless of how infinitesimally small the chances are that something bad could happen.

This. Plus, have you ever been in a house fire? My MIL's house burned down due to a battery charger that overheated in the garage. The garage interior was fully engulfed when my FIL who was home heard a weird bleep (it was the alarm system melting.) He went to open the garage door to the house, got a backdraft in his face that burned off his eyebrows. The house was reduced to a pile of ashes in less than 20 minutes. Now imagine if something like that happened and it was your 7 year old who opened the door.

+1 million. This is why you should never garden, nap, or work out in the basement while your LO one is sleeping. Monitors provide a false sense of security and I am surprised they haven't already been banned considering they patently promote negligence.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad to hear OP double teamed it and was able to get out for some adult time and nothing happened.

Anonymous wrote:Whoever took the little McCann girl was likely watching her parents and figured out they had left the children alone. How well do you know your neighbors? You never know when someone decides to take advantage of a situation where your children are vulnerable because an opportunity suddenly presents itself and the idea comes into their sick heads. I am generally pretty laid back but wouldn't take a risk like this regardless of how infinitesimally small the chances are that something bad could happen.

This. Plus, have you ever been in a house fire? My MIL's house burned down due to a battery charger that overheated in the garage. The garage interior was fully engulfed when my FIL who was home heard a weird bleep (it was the alarm system melting.) He went to open the garage door to the house, got a backdraft in his face that burned off his eyebrows. The house was reduced to a pile of ashes in less than 20 minutes. Now imagine if something like that happened and it was your 7 year old who opened the door.

+1 million. This is why you should never garden, nap, or work out in the basement while your LO one is sleeping. Monitors provide a false sense of security and I am surprised they haven't already been banned considering they patently promote negligence.

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Anonymous wrote:We have friends who go out, lock their doors, and leave baby monitor with their neighbor (it works next door). Not sure what I think about this.

I would call CPS in this particular case. There is no way to assume the neighbors pay enough attention to the monitor. It's basically leaving the child unattended.

That's nice...now get a life!

Not PP, have a life and also a mandated reporter. This one clearly crosses the line, someone leaving a monitor with a neighbor while they go out for the night should be reportex.

No it shouldn't.

And this tells me you either don't have kids or are relisha rudd's mother.

Anonymous wrote:Glad to hear OP double teamed it and was able to get out for some adult time and nothing happened.

Anonymous wrote:Whoever took the little McCann girl was likely watching her parents and figured out they had left the children alone. How well do you know your neighbors? You never know when someone decides to take advantage of a situation where your children are vulnerable because an opportunity suddenly presents itself and the idea comes into their sick heads. I am generally pretty laid back but wouldn't take a risk like this regardless of how infinitesimally small the chances are that something bad could happen.

This. Plus, have you ever been in a house fire? My MIL's house burned down due to a battery charger that overheated in the garage. The garage interior was fully engulfed when my FIL who was home heard a weird bleep (it was the alarm system melting.) He went to open the garage door to the house, got a backdraft in his face that burned off his eyebrows. The house was reduced to a pile of ashes in less than 20 minutes. Now imagine if something like that happened and it was your 7 year old who opened the door.

Anonymous wrote:Whoever took the little McCann girl was likely watching her parents and figured out they had left the children alone. How well do you know your neighbors? You never know when someone decides to take advantage of a situation where your children are vulnerable because an opportunity suddenly presents itself and the idea comes into their sick heads. I am generally pretty laid back but wouldn't take a risk like this regardless of how infinitesimally small the chances are that something bad could happen.

Anonymous wrote:A word of caution..my parents did this when we were kids. One night they got a little too drunk, mom sent dad home to bed and he passed out in neighbors yard. Mom thought we were safe so she crased on neighbors couch. I was four and the eldest child. I woke up at 3 am to a empty house. I called the police and all hell broke loose.

Anonymous wrote:And that's why there's a law saying it's illegal to do that.

Clearly OP and lots of people here lack common sense. I'm glad there's a law to bring such people back to reality.

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Anonymous wrote:We have friends who go out, lock their doors, and leave baby monitor with their neighbor (it works next door). Not sure what I think about this.

I would call CPS in this particular case. There is no way to assume the neighbors pay enough attention to the monitor. It's basically leaving the child unattended.

That's nice...now get a life!

Not PP, have a life and also a mandated reporter. This one clearly crosses the line, someone leaving a monitor with a neighbor while they go out for the night should be reportex.

No it shouldn't.

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Anonymous wrote:We have friends who go out, lock their doors, and leave baby monitor with their neighbor (it works next door). Not sure what I think about this.

I would call CPS in this particular case. There is no way to assume the neighbors pay enough attention to the monitor. It's basically leaving the child unattended.

That's nice...now get a life!

Not PP, have a life and also a mandated reporter. This one clearly crosses the line, someone leaving a monitor with a neighbor while they go out for the night should be reportex.

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Anonymous wrote:No. It takes about 5 seconds for a room to be engulfed in flames. Truly. I wouldn't do it.

I'm not saying your decision is wrong, because there are clearly strong arguments for not doing what OP suggests, but by the above logic do you consider it safe for your children to be in a separate room within the same house -- surely it takes more than 5 seconds to get from wherever you sleep to wherever your children sleep? At some point in parenting you have to accept some risk, and clearly this discussion shows that where the line is drawn between acceptable and too much is a very individualized choice.

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Anonymous wrote:We have friends who go out, lock their doors, and leave baby monitor with their neighbor (it works next door). Not sure what I think about this.

I would call CPS in this particular case. There is no way to assume the neighbors pay enough attention to the monitor. It's basically leaving the child unattended.

That's nice...now get a life!

Not PP, have a life and also a mandated reporter. This one clearly crosses the line, someone leaving a monitor with a neighbor while they go out for the night should be reportex.

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Anonymous wrote:We have friends who go out, lock their doors, and leave baby monitor with their neighbor (it works next door). Not sure what I think about this.

I would call CPS in this particular case. There is no way to assume the neighbors pay enough attention to the monitor. It's basically leaving the child unattended.

That's nice...now get a life!

Anonymous wrote:OP's joke shows how clearly she lacks common sense.

So being at your own home in the backyard is exactly the same as being outside at a neighbors house?

Would you be charged if something happened and you were at the neighbors? Would you be charged if something happened and you were outside your backyard?

Duh!