Let me ask a serious question......Does a friends child become your own when you are watching them? Recently my daughter stayed with a friend for a sleep-over. The sleep-over went fine, but the next day the father (nameless ass) decided to let his tomboy daughter take mine to the playground ( 9yr old girls ) which was out of his site. Wrong? Hell yes! The daughter then asked is mine wanted to see a stream in the woods, well my daughter in cautious. When they went to it, they could not get back up the embankment. Scared isnt the right word as to how my daughter was feeling. They had to go through a knee deep stream, in 45 degree weather, climb out the other side, cross a ditch and the nameless ass has the balls to say, "oh, kids will be kids." Do you know how hard it was for me not to put him through the wall? Am I wrong in this? I understand kids need to be allowed to explore, but in this day and age, too many things can go wrong. So, I played the softer hand and took my daughter home so as not to confront him around the kids. Do you think I should persue it further? Or just stop any further sleep-overs? I always told my kids, "You can hate me for being overprotective, but you'll never hate me for not being there." So, overbearing? Hope not.
