Two parents really helps avoid the grocery store kid problem.
Wegmans grocery store had a nice Kids Place to drop your kid for free while grocery shopping. It was great!! Some of the best cute little kid homemade Christmas ornaments we put on our tree every year were made in the Wegmans Kids Place. Sad day when kiddo turned 8 and aged out of the Kids Place. By then, self control was not a big deal.
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Sounds like a target rich environment for a pederast.DrPepper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 12:38 pm Two parents really helps avoid the grocery store kid problem.
Wegmans grocery store had a nice Kids Place to drop your kid for free while grocery shopping. It was great!! Some of the best cute little kid homemade Christmas ornaments we put on our tree every year were made in the Wegmans Kids Place. Sad day when kiddo turned 8 and aged out of the Kids Place. By then, self control was not a big deal.
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Was gonna put this in y’all’s tourist thread, but let’s discuss here!
So how young is too young to leave kids unattended?
Just had a guest loose his shit on the phone cuz he tried to book a 4 hour daycare for his kids while he’s out on a 5 hour fishing trip.
We asked, who can pick your kids up after the daycare? We have to have an adult come get them.
Oh I figured I’d just let them wander around y’all’s resort and kill time on their own til I’m back. I’ll give them a room key in case they want to go to the room.
The kids are 8 and 10.
sooo parent of the year award orrr?
So how young is too young to leave kids unattended?
Just had a guest loose his shit on the phone cuz he tried to book a 4 hour daycare for his kids while he’s out on a 5 hour fishing trip.
We asked, who can pick your kids up after the daycare? We have to have an adult come get them.
Oh I figured I’d just let them wander around y’all’s resort and kill time on their own til I’m back. I’ll give them a room key in case they want to go to the room.
The kids are 8 and 10.
sooo parent of the year award orrr?
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We leave our soon to be 8 year old at home by himself for no more than 20 minutes. By age 10, we’ll probably let him be on his own a while longer.
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so perhaps the better question is, how young is too young for a resort or daycare to end their custody of the kids in and just turn 'em looose?
As a matter of policy, the child care should be cool with telling kids they're on their own and to not do anything stupid until their dad comes back?
if those kids go get kicked by a horse, or fall into the creek and get hypothermic, or get into some peanut M&M's and have a reaction or whatever, you really think the dad's gonna come back and just say, welp kids will be kids!
As a matter of policy, the child care should be cool with telling kids they're on their own and to not do anything stupid until their dad comes back?
if those kids go get kicked by a horse, or fall into the creek and get hypothermic, or get into some peanut M&M's and have a reaction or whatever, you really think the dad's gonna come back and just say, welp kids will be kids!
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By the time we had a baby last year (and screwed everything up), our then-10 and 8-year old could be left alone for long enough to go get dinner or run errands, etc. The 10-year-old would be good for much longer than that.NewtonHawk11 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:04 pm We leave our soon to be 8 year old at home by himself for no more than 20 minutes. By age 10, we’ll probably let him be on his own a while longer.
That said - we live in a very close-knit neighborhood (including a lot of family close by), so there was not a lot that could truly go wrong. I'd feel very different in a different neighborhood, or in an environment without neighbors nearby.
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Was out doing touristy things shopping at touristy shops the other day and a little kid was sprinting through the store. He was headed straight for an area of the aisle where I think he figured i'd have moved on from ( or maybe he wasn't even thinking ) before he got there at his speed. I hadn't and didn't make any extra effort to move/dodge.
Kid knocks into me and he stumbles over.
Gets right back up and back to sprinting around the room.
Mom makes an effort from the other end of the store, "stop running".
Good effort mom.
Kid knocks into me and he stumbles over.
Gets right back up and back to sprinting around the room.
Mom makes an effort from the other end of the store, "stop running".
Good effort mom.
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^^^
Dad’s at the counter asking about zip lines while his kid runs at large around the shop. Kid runs up next to the counter and grabs a bottle of sunscreen off a display and somehow manages to knock over the whole display, sending dozens of bottles of sunscreen across the room.
Dad turns to me and says, could y’all clean that up?
Good effort dad!
Dad’s at the counter asking about zip lines while his kid runs at large around the shop. Kid runs up next to the counter and grabs a bottle of sunscreen off a display and somehow manages to knock over the whole display, sending dozens of bottles of sunscreen across the room.
Dad turns to me and says, could y’all clean that up?
Good effort dad!
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I’d have guessed the other 10% is preying on your co-workers.
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