Wouldn't have been very anonymous! We live on an isolated little cul de sac with only 3 houses and have a shared access driveway to the houses. Nobody overlooks it or anything.
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Wouldn't have been very anonymous! We live on an isolated little cul de sac with only 3 houses and have a shared access driveway to the houses. Nobody overlooks it or anything.
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Could have created one of those newspaper clipping ransom style notes and posted it at 4am.
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Sounds like a serial killer in the making.
No. He always waits until their backs are turned or until theyve gone inside or something. Keep in mind these are only the things that I've seen in passing. I dunno what else he does when he's in the house or I'm not outside mine.
Have you managed to establish an ongoing conversation with the parents? Are you able to tell them about this latest incident? This is very worrying and the parents may be very tempted to just look the other way and hope it stops but I agree with others - this sounds like a psychopath in the making.
Psychopath is a bit harsh. There's blatant attachment issues inside that house which this kid is suffering from and acting out. Without therapy now it will only get worse, therapy is the only way the parents will understand their involvement in his behaviour.
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If this was 30 years ago, your responsibility as an adult would be to grab him, march him up to the front door and explain what you saw to the parents.
Don’t take the easy route. You know it’s not on so do the right thing. There is no moral dilemma to question yourself with.
Don’t take the easy route. You know it’s not on so do the right thing. There is no moral dilemma to question yourself with.
What a sad state of affairs we have around in the world where a damn baby being punched through a pushchair cover is considered amoral dilemma on whether to speak up about it and potentially save the baby from serious injury in the near future.
Take a look at the responses. Very mixed bag!
Anyways, just so you know it was a case of once bitten, twice shy. Some people don't react in a reasonable manner when you point out their kids have done something negative.
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I actually agree,
I would just keep informing parents of what I see, but beyond that you can't do much. Report it to CPS? that's perhaps a little over the top..... it's a tough one.
Pretty simply when you next have cause to speak to them:
Steer conversation towards how they are finding having a second child.
Ask if older sibling seems content, given how now not being centre of attention can affect them.
Mention while passing you saw them reprimand him for being a little rough recently and that there was another occasion they may not have been aware of.
If they kick back about it just say you felt they ought to know and move on. You'll have done your bit.
Steer conversation towards how they are finding having a second child.
Ask if older sibling seems content, given how now not being centre of attention can affect them.
Mention while passing you saw them reprimand him for being a little rough recently and that there was another occasion they may not have been aware of.
If they kick back about it just say you felt they ought to know and move on. You'll have done your bit.
Yeh cool, let a potential injury be inflicted on a helpless toddler because you're scared of confrontation / don't want to seem nosey? M