Ask Amy: Witness to unsafe daycare wonders what to do
Extremely unsafe.
You should minimize your dogs’ time outside when the children are there. But any and every time you see these children shooting projectiles at your dogs, you should personally go outside, tell them to stop it, and explain that they are hurting the dogs, even if they don’t mean to.
Every time you see children in your front yard or the street, you should call the daycare proprietor and tell her that children are on your property and you are concerned for their safety.
If you see unsupervised young children in the street, you should immediately do what you can to see to their safety, and consider calling the police.
And then you should also report this unsafe daycare business to the agency in your area that is in charge of regulating and investigating childcare businesses. In my state, it is the Office of Children and Family Services.
You are obviously extremely intimidated by your neighbor (imagine how these children feel about her). I suggest that you stiffen your backbone and take all appropriate steps to force her to comply with safety standards.
Dear Amy: My niece just had a baby girl! I’m a proud great-uncle.
But the first picture that my brother posted was of his daughter breastfeeding the baby! This is the first time I have ever seen this!
Is this commonplace now? Or has it ever been?
My fiancé is as dumbfounded as I am!
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