Friday PS called me at work to ask if a new friend could come over. PS said Friends moved to her school late last year and hadn't yet made very many friends. I said ok, as long as Friend's mom knew there was only a babysitter at our house and no sleepovers because she had a 9:00 soccer game this morning.
When I got home from work I asked how long Friend is allowed to stay. PS said, "well, Friend thought it was a sleepover, so she brought her stuff."
I said, "no sleepovers because of soccer, she needs to call her mom and find out what time she needs to be home tonight."
Apparently Friend's mom disappeared for the evening, and Friend could not reach her at all. Also, Nanny told me that Friend's mom never asked for our phone number or any information about us--just dropped off Friend and didn't even come to the door.
Now, PS and her BFF have ventured into the waters of parent manipulation before and have not gone back after they got in trouble from both sides. I really don't think that PS was trying to pull one over on me. I think that Friend's mom just checked out.
This morning, I told Friend that we had a soccer game and that she needed to call her mom so that we could drop her off beforehand. Friend couldn't reach mom again. So we took Friend to soccer game (well, sort of--that's another post).
I finally decided that if Friend's parents had so little interest in her whereabouts, she might be just as well at our house. And as of 3 this afternoon, still no peep from Friend's parents. I finally told her to call home and make sure someone was there so we could drop her off. I guess we could have kept her all weekend.
I am just astonished that this child's parents let her spend the night at someone's house, having never met her parents, and left her there for a full 24 hours without ever checking in on her. She was very polite and well-behaved, but you just have to wonder what is going on on the home front.
4 comments:
That's horrible. What if there'd been an emergency and they needed to be reached? That's just inexcusable. Parent Fail.
Ditto Parent Fail.
That makes me so sad for her. My parents were the opposite - we practically had to have 2 weeks' notice of a sleepover, a dossier on the prospective sleepover family, a guarantee that parents would be supervising all night, and a firm pickup time. It annoyed me at the time - but man, am I luck it was that on not this!
I can't even imagine in what world I'd have to be living in to do that to sons.
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