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Originally Posted by Bestbirths  I would have a meeting with the parents of all of the children involved and all of the children involved in this locust raiding type of food situation. For the Christmas caper, would have charged them for the ingredients, plus I would charge them for the cost of having to go out and get premade goodies from a bakery if there was no time to replace the goodies. There would be some kind of restitution made if possible. And a family meeting needing to be had with the child that let those children come in and eat all that food. How old was the child that did that? Boy, and the bigger issue is if he knew and understood that food was special but wanted to be accepted so much that he would let other children come in and eat the special food...big red flag there that there could be some serious underlying issues with that child regarding peer pressure. The other issue being what kind of kids come in and eat up all of a families christmas goodies?
I would be meeting the parents of all my children's friends and not hanging out with kids like that. I would charge them, and probably if there were any other issues, not let my children play with them.
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My poor nephew!! He's such a sweet heart but a bit of a loner at school, which on the outside doesn't seem to bother him, but at some point it MUST. I think that the lad involved teases and bullies him a little at school, dn sort of mentioned it the last time I was there visiting.
Anyway the main boy involved is never friends with dn at school, but is always asking dn to go outside and play on the bikes/climbing frame etc, he is locked out of his home from the end of school (4pm when the bus drops them off) until his parents get home anytime between 6 and 7.30 pm
he's always asking to come into the house now and uses my sister abit like a babysitting service (well his parents do, but never ask, of course!!), in fact once his parents decided to go out to the pub one sunday lunch and left their son locked out of their house, when my sister was with her children walking down the road because they had a playdate at another neighbours house, the mother asked dn what her son was doing and who was looking after him, it's really a case of neglect
. Just a bit more detail my sister and her dh have a bit of a problem with these folks as neighbours, they once came into her garden when the family were out and cut down their hedge and were 'terribly offended' that sis called the police on them!!! Thank goodness we don't have a garden i guess there must be some good to living in a flat!
I genuinely think that dn thought he was being nice asking the kids in but never imagined for a moment that they would take everything, poor soul! He's 9.
They have had a family meeting and dn expressed how sorry he was about what happened, and agrees with my sis and everyone else because dn2 was very cross that 'they took everything and we had nothing!' , and that the boys are never to come into the house unless in an absolute emergency. As for the boy, they live in a tiny village, so calling in social services etc would be really difficult, but several people have been talking about it recently, especially in the cold winter months.
We'll see what happens.
Anyway I'd love to come and have an apple with you - but we're miles away in France!! If you're ever across here I'll taking you apple picking and cider tasting!! Haha.
: In that situation I do go back to the store and buy more apples, but it is a big deal, like an honor if you will, to be offered an apple in our house.
