This year is starting off to be a busy busy year. Work is constantly getting in the way of posting to my blog and reading other people blogs. I don't recall work ever being so inconvenient!
Anyway with that said, I had promised myself that I wouldn't update my blog until I'd marched down to that little girls house and knocked on her door in regards to this matter from last year.
So last week sometime I went down there with Baby C in tow. I figured it might seem a little less startling with a 3 year old braced on my hip.
The mother answered the door with her daughter in tow as well. She stood right by her mother, all the while biting her nails and looking down at the floor.
I tried to make eye contact with her as I spoke to her mother. I wanted to desperately let her know that I wasn't trying to rat her out but more concerned with her safety.
Her mother was very concerned, very apologetic and very thankful. She turned to her daughter and repeated once again..."That if she ever misses the bus she should come back home and call her straight away." The girls only response was to please not tell daddy, and with each plea I realized that daddy was obviously the one that needed to be told!!! Her mother explained to her once again that there are rapists and all sorts of bad people out in the world today and that she has to be careful.
By this time Baby C was entirely too heavy and we thankfully bid each other good night, with the mother explaining that she tends to keep to herself but she knows that we live only two doors away and that if we ever need anything we're always weclome.
So while I might have lost the friendship of this little girl, I hope I've saved her life.
oh i'm so glad you did that! glad it turned out ok too!
ReplyDeleteGood for you! I think the girl will eventually figure out that you were just looking out for her. There are way too many wierdos out there!
ReplyDeleteyou did good grasshoppa--seriously though, what you did was commendable--don't ever think you lost touch with girl--she'll eventually feel her way around you and begin to trust you on a level where she will know that if anything happens to her, she can come to you--whats important is you became her advocate!--if i had a medal i would give it to ya--love ya much gurlfriend!---remain blessed
ReplyDeleteToo many would have let the matter slide by now. So good that you followed through. There is no telling what a difference you may have made under future circumstances.
ReplyDeleteYou did the right thing, you really did. And I don't think you lost the friendship of the little girl - I think you gained her respect. Children know when we as adults have their best interests at heart.
ReplyDeleteOH wow I am so happy you went and did that. I bet the mother was not only pissed that her daughter didn't come home but also embarrassed what happened and you had to make her aware of it.
ReplyDeleteI hope that this lttle girl (and parents) will be more cautious in the future. That situation could've ended very tragically.
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