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[quote=Anonymous]I guess no one here have been in small European towns: seeing a baby there napping on the street with parents in a coffee shop or a store is pretty normal... It's all about "fresh air". I had to remind my mother many times to sit next to the stroller on our porch when the babies were there -- she still thinks I'm crazy for requesting it and has left her "post" many times to get tea or something like that...

To PP about wedding ring: I can see how can someone steal a wedding ring if you stumble in the street onto it... You can sell the ring in a pawn shop, even if you are caught it might be hard for police to prove that you did not have that ring all your life... If you stumble on the street on a baby, even if you are a pedofile of something, I'm not sure that kidnapping a baby will be the first thing on your mind... It sounds like a much harder and riskier task than slipping a ring into your pocket...

I don't know -- I wouldn't fire a nanny for this if there was indeed only 3 minutes, it's a quiet suburban street (max 5 dog walkers passing by in a hour and you know all of them). To me it sounds like an over reaction showcasing to what our society has come -- watching kids every move till what age? 8? 10? And I'm not one of these "free range" parents, just as I think about it we are getting ourselves crazy and maybe trying to protect our kids way too much..

I personally did not fire a nanny for allowing my kids (8, 5 and 2.5) to play basketball on a cul de sac unsupervised for about 5 min while she was putting into freezer a project the 8 year old has started. My biggest concern there was a car hitting the toddler --- though we have only 3 homes here and like 10 max cars a day... We had a conversation, she is not allowed to let the toddler outside without her by the side, but she grew up in rural environment and originally saw nothing wrong with this. [/quote]

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