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This was posted on a neighborhood listserv. What would you prefer your 13-year-old to do in this situation?:

Our 13 year-old son came home last night with a strange and worrisome story. He was waiting at the bus stop on Wisconsin Avenue outside Sidwell Friends after camp Monday afternoon around 3:00 PM, when a woman he didn't know approached and asked him to look after a small boy and a dog while she ran into the school building. Our son didn't quite know what to do, and agreed, staying with the child and the dog while his bus came and went. My son described the child as a blond boy of perhaps five; the dog as a very small breed; and the babysitter as "African- American. "

We've talked to our son about the tricky line between feeling bound to help someone out and needing to decline a situation that's too much for you. We were appalled that a caregiver would leave her charges with an unknown child on a major thoroughfare. As parents ourselves, we would have wanted to be aware if our caregiver had done something this potentially dangerous, so we're putting this out in hopes that the right family will see this.
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