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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 457437" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>We had a nice boy in our neighborhood who stayed in our yard during dinner...and then stayed after dark. The kid was a polite kid but it messed up meal time and bedtime etc. Long story short, it turned out that he was left alone from after school until 9 PM every day while his Mom worked and his Dad did "his thing". What a difficult choice we had to face because of his parents choices. We started including him at dinner time. Then we let him stay in the family room whle easy child/difficult child got ready for bed. <strong>But</strong> when I realized there was no end in sight and it did disrupt the flow of our home I made the choice to cut back on our support. We invited him to stay for dinner a couple of nights a week, asked if he had dinner at his house on the other nights and one of us "watched him walk safely to his house from the sidewalk with the admonition "Randy it's time for you to settle in at your house. Lock the door behind you</p><p>and we'll watch for your inside lights to come on before we go inside."</p><p></p><p>He was probably nine or ten at the time. I hated that he had so little family support. One day at the grocery store a few years ago a big handsome young man came walking up to me. "Do you remember me?" Sure enough that was the boy. He managed to get into the Armed Forces and was doing well. He thanked me for the support and the friendship we had offered when he was little. Finally, after ten or twelve years, I could sigh a sigh of relief. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 457437, member: 35"] We had a nice boy in our neighborhood who stayed in our yard during dinner...and then stayed after dark. The kid was a polite kid but it messed up meal time and bedtime etc. Long story short, it turned out that he was left alone from after school until 9 PM every day while his Mom worked and his Dad did "his thing". What a difficult choice we had to face because of his parents choices. We started including him at dinner time. Then we let him stay in the family room whle easy child/difficult child got ready for bed. [B]But[/B] when I realized there was no end in sight and it did disrupt the flow of our home I made the choice to cut back on our support. We invited him to stay for dinner a couple of nights a week, asked if he had dinner at his house on the other nights and one of us "watched him walk safely to his house from the sidewalk with the admonition "Randy it's time for you to settle in at your house. Lock the door behind you and we'll watch for your inside lights to come on before we go inside." He was probably nine or ten at the time. I hated that he had so little family support. One day at the grocery store a few years ago a big handsome young man came walking up to me. "Do you remember me?" Sure enough that was the boy. He managed to get into the Armed Forces and was doing well. He thanked me for the support and the friendship we had offered when he was little. Finally, after ten or twelve years, I could sigh a sigh of relief. DDD [/QUOTE]
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