Unsupervised Neighbourhood Kids

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Update!

So after some careful consideration on how to approach this potentially touchy issue, I figured I would get my husband (who speaks the same language as them) to very nicely & politely explain the dangers & issue of ratios. We waited until one day on a weekend when it was just us home, & they usually walk by & smile & say something to my husband in their language, & when they did this he went for it & carefully slipped it in the conversation in a non-confrontational manner. Sometimes either my husband or them will strike up a brief conversation, & this time they were on the topic of landscaping, which turned into the topic of children, then they asked about the daycare, then he mentioned how there’s a lot of rules I have to follow (this is how & when he slipped it in there). This didn’t bode over well with them & now there’s a good row of 4 houses that pretend like we don’t exist anymore. They became offended & my husband later told me that they told him he shouldn’t call himself a (insert ethnicity here) because they’re all very welcoming & hospitable & what he insinuated was very rude & offensive & blah blah blah & “what would your mother think” of him not allowing neighbourhood children to play with his.

Needless to say I am glad that that conversation has been had, & I am glad that I don’t have to worry about being over ratios again because my DCK’s safety is literally my number 1 priority during daycare hours. I am just upset over the thought of how things turned out.