Neighbours not watching their kids

[2cuteboys]

I've never had to deal with this, but I can imagine how frustrating it would be!

A friend if mine (didn't do daycare) ended up being the lady who watched everyone's kids in her neighborhood. The neighbor boy would come knock on her kids windows, making it hard for her to say no when she didn't want an extra kid around.

One day she saw her neighbors driving away, thought nothing of it as a set of grandparents lived with them too, until she tried to send neighbor boy home a half hour later and he came back because no one was there. She called his mom and apparently everyone in the house has gone for a "quick trip to ikea"!!! Unbelievable!

[nschildcare]

I've never had to deal with this, but I can imagine how frustrating it would be!

A friend if mine (didn't do daycare) ended up being the lady who watched everyone's kids in her neighborhood. The neighbor boy would come knock on her kids windows, making it hard for her to say no when she didn't want an extra kid around.

One day she saw her neighbors driving away, thought nothing of it as a set of grandparents lived with them too, until she tried to send neighbor boy home a half hour later and he came back because no one was there. She called his mom and apparently everyone in the house has gone for a "quick trip to ikea"!!! Unbelievable!

This happened to me, as well. Sent the little guy home for lunch (he was 5) and he came back a few minutes later. I opened the door to tell him that my son would be out after lunch and didn't he eat? He replied that no one was home and he didn't know where they were. Turns out mom was at work and dad had taken off to the coffee shop. Nice!