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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friend invited us to her hood for TOT. Her neighborhood is a cul de sac but opens to a busy road. Also there are lots of branch streets so it’s not like you can stand in the culdesac and see everything. Neighbors had garages open as well. Neighbors had an adult party while kids did TOT. Her 5 yo is NOT reliable and while a sweet kid had major defiance issues. My 4.5 yo is a follower. She said relax and stay with the grown ups and drink wine and let the two boys go around and her oldest (maybe 9?) would keep an eye on the younger two boys. Well, I saw the oldest run off with his friends about 10 seconds later so I left the grown up wine party and supervised the two little boys for the rest of the night.  Not hovering just ensuring I could see them going house to house.  I’m sure her neighborhood is safe but I just didn’t think that is was safe enough to let such young kids out of eyesight. They could have gotten daring and went to the main road etc.  Anyway, too helicoptery?[/quote]

Your neighbor probably blogs about how wonderful and free-range she is.  I don't get it.  Is wine that important?  This is the adult version of "I'm too cool to study for the exam"[/quote]

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