Would you let your baby stay with their in-laws if they had no reliable way to be contacted?
My in-laws have kindly offered to provide childcare for our baby when I return to work next year, however they are very old fashioned and I have concerns over safety.
They don’t have mobile phones, they don’t have a car or drive, they do have a landline phone but it’s quite old and unreliable. For example when we need to contact them we often have to email them and wait until the end of the day when they check their inbox to get a reply, sometimes this takes days.
My husband agrees it’s not ideal, but when it has been raised as a concern it’s met with ‘it’s worked for us so far’. I think they are very intimidated/scared of technology. We have been trying to coach them to use a mobile but they seem overwhelmed by it.
My concern is that on the days they have our child they won’t be able to contact us and/or take them somewhere if needed. Would you let your child stay as it currently stands?
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It’s not so much the contacting me that’s would be the issue if I trusted them as grandparents and this was the norm for them.
It’s the complete contact cut off from help in an emergency. No phones, no car, unreliable landline? How do they call for help if something happens to the baby or to them?
Nope
Buy them a cheap button phone just for phone calls to and from you guys when your child is in their care. Otherwise it’s a hard no for me if they aren’t willing to do that.
“Im sorry, but, this might be where it stops working for you, because it needs to also work for us as parents too”
O gosh. Ya I would not be comfortable with this. suggestion is great though about a cheap phone you can maybe buy them!
But also how old are they? Why are they so anti technology? I mean I get it. But this seems extreme and honestly could be dangerous.
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