Back-to-school routine ends in panic after dad leaves 7-year-old son home alone for 3 hours, then blames his wife for not reminding him about drop-off: 'Dad just left me!'

Back-to-school routines are back, and so are the parents adjusting to the new schedules and responsibilities. Drop-off is at 8, so you get the kids up at 7, make breakfast, pack lunch, and then go. But every family's morning routine is different.A Reddit user, Kristaboo14, shared a misunderstanding that happened in her family during the school routine. She is a working mom, and for the past three years, she has worked in the office every Friday. She leaves at 6, before anyone else wakes up, to begin work at 7. During that entire time, her husband has taken their 7-year-old son to school on Fridays. His schedule has recently changed because he now has a new job, but his shift doesn't begin until 9… This made him responsible for taking their son to school on Fridays. He forgot about school drop-off and went to work like any other day, leaving his son at home alone. The working mom found out about this when the school sent her an absence alert. Naturally, she panicked, and a lot of things came to her mind, except that the father had forgotten to take him to school. The worst of it all is that when she confronted him, the father's only argument for leaving his son alone all morning wa…

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