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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the director of a childcare center, I'm not sure I can do anything about it.  It's a decision the praent is making, outside the childcare center.  If the child who attended the center shows up with bruises, I'm a mandated reporter.  If the child doesn't show up with food day in and day out, I'm a mandated reporter.

But if a child who isn't enrolled in my center is doing something outside the center that I can't see or have proof of, then what can Ii do?  I guess if I were told this I'd have to speak with a police officer or someone to see what I could do.

Because speaking with the parent saying [b]"you know that's really not safe" [/b]isn't going to change her - she knows it's not 100% safe but is playing the odds.

But I sure wouldn't like what was happening!  [/quote]

Why is this not safe? If the climate is OK, the only two risks I see are:

1) someone breaking into the car and kidnapping the child or
2) the child waking up and being scared about being alone.

It seems to me like #1 is very unlikely, assuming the car is locked (if it's not, well then yes, this is absolutely too risky). This is in broad daylight. There are other people around. The parent is gone for only a few minutes. The odds of a car jacking or kidnapping seem very, very low. Walking my child to daycare every day (which entails crossing several intersections) seems more risky to me than this. Life is not 100% safe. It's scary, but I can't dwell on it or I'd drive myself crazy. 
I'd be worried about #2, but the parent knows the child better than me and can better the cost/benefit of leaving the child versus waking and taking him/her into the daycare.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I would not say anything about this.[/quote]

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