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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 457478" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>So this boys mother told you to just send her eight year old home to an empty house? OMG!</p><p></p><p>When my kids were small we lived in an apartment complex in Florida and there was a family like this. They had two little girls about the same age as mine and those kids were always over at our house. I never did meet the mom but apparently there was no dad, just the mom, her occasional boyfriend, and the two little girls. If the kids got hot while they were playing outside, they would come to MY door to ask for a drink of water. It finally came out that the mom would send them outside to play and then <u>lock them out</u> until she was good and ready to let them in again! She just assumed that the neighbors would look out for them and never once came to our house looking for her kids. They couldn't get in even to use the bathroom or get a drink of water! I'm not sure if the mother was even in the locked apartment or if she just put them out and went off running around somewhere. I felt so sorry for those kids and we probably weren't the only ones who gave them drinks, fed them, and let them use the bathroom. If they were still there at dinner time I would usually ask them to eat with us but I would send them home to ask their mother first ... they would come back and say the door was still locked. The oldest little girl had a very obvious eye problem. One eye was OK but the other one kind of moved around and would twitch from side to side. She spilled something at dinner one time and was so embarassed - she said "I can't see real good"! I just wanted to cry! This was a long, long time ago and I regret to this day that I never called to have CPS check on them. I just hope somebody else did. I think they moved not too long after this and I never had the chance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 457478, member: 1883"] So this boys mother told you to just send her eight year old home to an empty house? OMG! When my kids were small we lived in an apartment complex in Florida and there was a family like this. They had two little girls about the same age as mine and those kids were always over at our house. I never did meet the mom but apparently there was no dad, just the mom, her occasional boyfriend, and the two little girls. If the kids got hot while they were playing outside, they would come to MY door to ask for a drink of water. It finally came out that the mom would send them outside to play and then [U]lock them out[/U] until she was good and ready to let them in again! She just assumed that the neighbors would look out for them and never once came to our house looking for her kids. They couldn't get in even to use the bathroom or get a drink of water! I'm not sure if the mother was even in the locked apartment or if she just put them out and went off running around somewhere. I felt so sorry for those kids and we probably weren't the only ones who gave them drinks, fed them, and let them use the bathroom. If they were still there at dinner time I would usually ask them to eat with us but I would send them home to ask their mother first ... they would come back and say the door was still locked. The oldest little girl had a very obvious eye problem. One eye was OK but the other one kind of moved around and would twitch from side to side. She spilled something at dinner one time and was so embarassed - she said "I can't see real good"! I just wanted to cry! This was a long, long time ago and I regret to this day that I never called to have CPS check on them. I just hope somebody else did. I think they moved not too long after this and I never had the chance. [/QUOTE]
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