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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^I suppose you are right, but my heart breaks for the girl. [/quote]

^All the more resin to report, no?

This time the girl stumbled upon a nice family that simply doesn’t have the bandwidth to take care of another child daily. What if the next family she comes upon isn’t so nice? [/quote]

DP. I totally disagree that this is CPS-worthy at all, based on OP's description which is pretty detailed; however, the girl's parents do seem incredibly naïve (besides being cluelessly rude to OP without even realizing it). I think they just assume that if DD's not in their house, she's at OP's house every day. One day OP isn't going to be home or won't let her in to play. She won't cry on the porch forever. Is she going to wander off to some other house? Down to the park? To that creek that runs behind the houses? (A real thing in our neighborhood, and dangerous to younger kids.)

Go ahead, free rangers, say that it's statistically almost impossible that she'd be pulled inside by some nefarious neighbor or picked up by a creeper in a car. Of course that's highly unlikely; I know that. But the fact her parents seem not to know where she is so much of the time, and don't seem to have even a "text once she gets there" relationship with OP, is just so stupid of them.

As a work at home parent, I find these parents' behavior an example of what not to do. Don't expect that someone else is delighted to have your child appear to play while you're working at home. Don't use "let kids be kids and play freely!" as an excuse not to get adequate child care for your child, just because you work inside your home. The OP said the girl seems to be in some kind of care some days but clearly it's not enough. The work at home dad needs to act like he really IS at work and get the girl adequate everyday care. Yes, OP knows the mom apparently isn't working outside the home right now but no one should [i]assume[/i], as some PPs have, that the mom is therefore automatically doing nothing at all. If she's doing something else, she needs to get care or arrange play dates she knows about, rather than sending DD out to others' homes unannounced.[/quote]

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