2 year olds playing outside.

[miss.understood]

right i live in a dead end road so no passing traffic as such just cars parking up and normally going fairly slowly. i also live in an upstairs massonette where the stairs are outside. anyway i always leave my front door open so jake can come and go while he is playing out side, i am sitting in my lounge and this little boy wonders in and says jake said i can use your loo, so i let him up to use the loo. i have never seen this boy before, so shouted jake in and asked him who he was as he wanted to stay up with me and play with jakes toys and i was getting a bit worried his mum would be looking for him. jake said he did know him and he always turns up but he didnt know where he lived. this boy is 2 and a half maybe 3:shock: so i told the boy that we should really go and see his mummy and tell her that he wanted to play in my house. so i took him home. this boy has crossed 3 roads on his own and comes round regularly to come play with jake :shock: i told his mother that i thought this was wrong and she should keep an eye on him as he is soo young and she was rude back and told me he is perfectly able to cross roads on his own and he could come round to see jake anytime he liked :shock:. what is wrong with people he is hardly even 3 i have ago at jake when he wonders off out of sight from the front for more then a few mins let alone long enough to cross 3 flippin roads and he is 6 not 3 some people just wind me up :x

[dora the ex...]

OMG!! thats so bad... beth is just 3 and she doesnt go out my garden and our street consists of about 10 houses and no cars come up or down the street but some parents make me so mad...

[August Girl]

That's outrageous! There is no way I'd ever let Z out of my sight and he's 5.

[miss.understood]

it just makes me soo mad coz if he was my son and had gone that far away from my house at his age i would have been frantic looking for him, but she didnt give a monkeys. see you try and do the right thing and take him home and you do the wrong thing you cant win can ya :roll:

[Alycat]

Absolutely appauling

[Cherrypie]

Beyond belief!

[~Twiggy~]

Poor little mite to have a mother like that.
It really saddens me.

[goldilocks]

Thats appaling! I'm afarid if I knew for sure that it was a regular occurance I would call social services to investigate. The bottom line is that there is a chid at risk and it has to be sorted. Not easy to do, but very necessary.

[RedTiger]

Jaysus! My DD is 7 and is only allowed to play in our cul-de-sac. I panic if I can't see her (she sometimes goes into her friends house / garden and forgets to tell me). At our old house there were kids out playing in the street, often in my back garden because I wouldn't let DD out - she was only 2 / 3, they were 3 / 4 / 5 I felt like an overprotective mother in comparison but i'd rather that than she was hit by a car!

[miss.understood]

Thats appaling! I'm afarid if I knew for sure that it was a regular occurance I would call social services to investigate. The bottom line is that there is a chid at risk and it has to be sorted. Not easy to do, but very necessary.
i cant be 100% on jakes word that he often turns up to play with him but he did know his name so must have been round at least 2 times for him to know his name. but i am gonna be keeping an eye open for him and then i will be ringing them to report it, as its just not on. what if it wasnt me that took him home what if it was some wierdo bloke who took him elsewhere then she would be causing a stink about it and asking why we didnt send him home grrrrrrrrrr some people.

[Princess Fiona]

Thats disgusting!! But you know what, nothing bad ever happens to those kinds of parents :x

[goldilocks]

what if it wasnt me that took him home what if it was some wierdo bloke who took him elsewhere then she would be causing a stink about it and asking why we didnt send him home grrrrrrrrrr some people.

It just doesnt bear thinking about does it. I'm so glad that youre prepared to stand up for him and report it if necessary. So many people wouldnt want to 'upset the applecart'. The poor little fella deserves better from his mum. I'll second your grrrrrrrrr!!!!

[ChelseaHarvey]

OMG that is so shocking :shock:

At 3 years old alfie will still be playing in our back garden, where we park our car is a private car park and its real quiet in the day as everyone is at work but id never let him play out there on his own!!

[Adelelee]

Thats terrible :shock::shock:

Gosh I am 36 and my dad does not let me get the train home late by myself!!!!!

[She Devil]

OMG that is terrible

[tekkencat]

Thats bloody awful - my dd is 7 and i sit on the step if shes playing out so that i can always see her - i wouldnt dream of leaving her outside to fend for herself -

Like someone said these families cant be told and nothing bad ever happens to them - bubt god forbid it did they'd be on the tv making pleas to everyone when in fact it could have been prevented by giving a 5hit about their kids in the first place

(Hmmmm seem to have hit a nerve there - grrrrrrr:hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit:

TC
xx

[Our lass]

When I lived down south I had a house on a quiet street close to the river, with a conservation area opposite. It was perfect place for kids playing out and the sort of place where everyone kept an eye out for everyone elses kids. A boy used to turn up on our street quite often, he was about 6 and noone ever used to play with him. His social skills were non existent and he used to bully kids to get them to play. MY OH sympathised with him and used to chat with him, explaining to him that if he was nicer, they would be nicer back to him. Slowly it worked. He once said to my OH that he wished he was his dad.
Anyway this little boy had a sister who was about 2.5 -3 years old. One evening my next door neighbour was walking her dog along the river when she came across this little girl alone. The girl willingly came with her so that she could try to find out where she lived. She knocked on everyone's house along the way until she came to mine and of course I recognised her. She was about half a mile away from home, walking along the river on a summers evening. I knew where she lived and told my neighbour I would take her home. I walked past the pub which was on the way and lo and behold her parents were sitting in the beer garden, absolutely plastered! I took her over and explained where she had been found and my concerns for her safetly and they just said 'Oh thanks, we wondered where she had got to!'
The next day I voiced my concerns to a parent at the school and said I might call social services and she said not to bother as they were already involved. Why on earth are parents like this left to 'care' for their kids when they so obviously only care about themselves??