It has been a while since I have done a personal post. I know, I am sorry. I have been doing my other posts while being on a 'fun job hunt' ... still getting no where. Anyways, there has been an ongoing headache...naye.. migraine at my house for quite a while and I just wanted to share it so I may get some advice on what to do next if there needs to be a next step.
Our home is located on a private dirt road just past a mobile home park. At first this really wasn't an issue. Our kids became fast friends with a bunch of them from the park and we didn't have any problems with any of them. During the spring and through the summer we have bushes and trees that give us seclusion. There were a couple things that didn't settle well with me but overall it seemed ok.
The first unsettling thing was seeing a little girl, maybe 3 years old, poking around a rusty covert that we have by our shed. She was in just a diaper and this was late fall! I guess I should have seen the early signs but it never hit me that this younger girl was a little sister of my older son's best friend. As time went on, and the kids got closer and closer, it seemed that these kids from the park were just coming and going as they pleased all the time. It started becoming a habit that when I would just get lunch done, a whole slew of more kids would come and sit down for their share.
It just got worse and worse. Manners went to the way side and knocking before coming in the house in groups of 3-4 started becoming the norm. After a few weeks of having 2 that were 4 and 5 staying hours without a check up, the hubs and I started to get really irritated. We started asking for a call. That didn't happen at first but when the calls did start coming through it was still all the time. Then it went back to no calls. Finally my husband went to talk to them and the response was 'I didn't even know they were there'. How do you not know that your kids have been gone for 2 and 1/2 hours?
I like these people, I really do but its now turned into a major concern. These kids have been found by the end of the dirt road near a very dangerous corner and just the other day, the 5 year old gives my 5 year old a jack knife. We have come home to our back door busted from one trying to get in when they found no answer at our front door. I am not confrontational but I have lost my patience. We have tried being nice, we have tried being firm... so tonight my husband had yet another talk with the father. I hope they don't take it as we just don't like them, cause we do. They are very nice, but the kids are just not watched.
What would be your next step if this turns out to be a 'understand for now but will go back to normal soon' situation? I feel that we have done our part in trying to look out for them, and be adults to the parents, I am just not sure that anything will change. Unlike the park, we are buying this land.. so I hope this isn't going to be like this forever. I guess we should have thought about this and the location that its at. Thanks in advance for your advice!
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Our home is located on a private dirt road just past a mobile home park. At first this really wasn't an issue. Our kids became fast friends with a bunch of them from the park and we didn't have any problems with any of them. During the spring and through the summer we have bushes and trees that give us seclusion. There were a couple things that didn't settle well with me but overall it seemed ok.
The first unsettling thing was seeing a little girl, maybe 3 years old, poking around a rusty covert that we have by our shed. She was in just a diaper and this was late fall! I guess I should have seen the early signs but it never hit me that this younger girl was a little sister of my older son's best friend. As time went on, and the kids got closer and closer, it seemed that these kids from the park were just coming and going as they pleased all the time. It started becoming a habit that when I would just get lunch done, a whole slew of more kids would come and sit down for their share.
It just got worse and worse. Manners went to the way side and knocking before coming in the house in groups of 3-4 started becoming the norm. After a few weeks of having 2 that were 4 and 5 staying hours without a check up, the hubs and I started to get really irritated. We started asking for a call. That didn't happen at first but when the calls did start coming through it was still all the time. Then it went back to no calls. Finally my husband went to talk to them and the response was 'I didn't even know they were there'. How do you not know that your kids have been gone for 2 and 1/2 hours?
I like these people, I really do but its now turned into a major concern. These kids have been found by the end of the dirt road near a very dangerous corner and just the other day, the 5 year old gives my 5 year old a jack knife. We have come home to our back door busted from one trying to get in when they found no answer at our front door. I am not confrontational but I have lost my patience. We have tried being nice, we have tried being firm... so tonight my husband had yet another talk with the father. I hope they don't take it as we just don't like them, cause we do. They are very nice, but the kids are just not watched.
What would be your next step if this turns out to be a 'understand for now but will go back to normal soon' situation? I feel that we have done our part in trying to look out for them, and be adults to the parents, I am just not sure that anything will change. Unlike the park, we are buying this land.. so I hope this isn't going to be like this forever. I guess we should have thought about this and the location that its at. Thanks in advance for your advice!
I received this product for the purpose of review. The opinions in this post are 100% my own and may differ from yours.
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