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Likewise. Our local pub is very family orientated and there are always plenty of children roaming around. That said, I do agree with Les and Nibble to a point. I am a parent and we often take our children into pubs, but I still don't want my evening ruined by children running amok and making...

You said what I said was unfair. I could never agree that leaving babies unattended is a good idea. My mother who I assume would have been around in that 'era' and taught me the values I have now is of the same opinion. She would beat me to within an inch of my life if I so much as thought...

5. You're a pretty decent bunch of people.

Things might have been done differently, but nothing can excuse leaving a baby unattended. Nothing. And if that makes me an unfair person then so be it. Different era or not there can never be any good reason for a parent to go to a bar/theatre/restaurant leaving their baby unattended in the...

I think anyone leaving a baby unattended is making a bad choice, if that is unfair on the person leaving a baby alone then I'd rather be unfair than fair.

I just can't understand how anyone can leave a baby like that, you said someone passed by the chalet every 20-30 mins. Baby starts crying, nightmare, wet nappy, fell out of bed, just after the maid has passed by, baby is crying for 18 minutes before maid passes by again, maid raises the alarm to...

IMO anyone who leaves a baby unattended anywhere is making bad choices as a parent.

That sucks. We have that stupid ABC now and a lot of people don't have big enough wheelie bins to last two weeks between collections and we have to keep calling the refuse people to come and clean it all up. Everyone in the village complains about the same thing everytime and hopefully they are...

Don't you have Wheelie Bins?

Like I said above, anything the media or public say about those parents won't even come close to the way they will be beating themselves up right now. I hope they have a happy ending to their holiday and Madeleine is returned safe and sound, but honestly this is an entirely avoidable situation...

Never. Ever. By 7pm on a night here I am frazzled by my children, by 8.30pm they are all asleep in bed, my husband is usually half way across the world on business. Never ever have I thought about popping to the local (which is less than 5 mins walk away) for a drink and food leaving my kids...

Heh. No offence taken, we do what works for us and it works very well for our family.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Radio presenters saying the parents where irresponsible (Madelein See my post earlier in the thread, we have a family bed. And no I wouldn't be happy, because assuming I had not left them alone in a house and gone out for the evening I'd have been doing everything in my...

Co-sleeping, sharing a bed/room. www.bygpub.com/natural/family-bed.htm

I don't know, I didn't mean I had specific things I do that I know are 'bad' just that some of our choices are not those that some people call 'good parenting' I know our school choices have been questioned on here, we have a family bed and I know that doesn't always go down well, we vaccinate...

Quite and I am sure I do things for/with my children that others would think was not good parenting. But children are too important and too precious to leave alone so I can go and have a dinner with friends a few hundred metres away in a completely separate building. If I knew a neighbour of...

Re: Re: Re: Radio presenters saying the parents where irresponsible (Madeleine) Absolutely. You try and do the very best for your children. I don't believe that leaving three children aged three and under alone in an apartment or anywhere for any length of time is a good parenting choice on...

My house is 'meant to be secure' I still don't leave my children alone, not because I'm worried about them being snatched (though I am!) but if the place caught fire? If my daughter woke from a night mare? If my son needed a drink of water? If he fell out of bed? It is the wrong time to say...

I do believe so, the donkey dealing incident was relatively recent.

Ribena.