What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MI
This is not so much a legal question, I guess, but I figured this was the best place to ask since most of you here have good advice on how to reasonably deal with issues between exes.
When my husband and I went to pick up his kids yesterday, we were parked out front of their mom's house and the neighbor came up to the car to talk to my husband (this is the first time he's ever spoken with her). When she approached him, she apologized for getting involved, but wanted him to know that she has had to have a talk with the kids on various occassions (for different things-most recently throwing water balloons over a retainer wall into someone else's yard). She said that the kids were really sweet and she felt bad because their mom doesn't watch them when they're around the neighborhood, and she doesn't seem to care where they go or what they do.
She is an elderly woman (probably mid 70's, early 80's), so she may just be acting on her motherly/grandmotherly instincts...but my husband is still uneasy about the kids going out and walking/riding around a neighborhood where they don't know anybody without any supervision (except for the sweet, nosy neighbor lady
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Is this concern even something he should try to bring up with mom? I understand, and so does he, that it's a parenting difference-and she would probably take any effort to discuss it as a personal attack on her. Or, should he just have a sit down with the kids and make sure they know how to handle themselves when they're out in the neighborhood playing unsupervised like that? (The kids just turned 8, if that factors in at all). They've discussed stranger danger and all that stuff...but I guess it couldn't hurt to refresh their memory.
Thanks!
This is not so much a legal question, I guess, but I figured this was the best place to ask since most of you here have good advice on how to reasonably deal with issues between exes.
When my husband and I went to pick up his kids yesterday, we were parked out front of their mom's house and the neighbor came up to the car to talk to my husband (this is the first time he's ever spoken with her). When she approached him, she apologized for getting involved, but wanted him to know that she has had to have a talk with the kids on various occassions (for different things-most recently throwing water balloons over a retainer wall into someone else's yard). She said that the kids were really sweet and she felt bad because their mom doesn't watch them when they're around the neighborhood, and she doesn't seem to care where they go or what they do.
She is an elderly woman (probably mid 70's, early 80's), so she may just be acting on her motherly/grandmotherly instincts...but my husband is still uneasy about the kids going out and walking/riding around a neighborhood where they don't know anybody without any supervision (except for the sweet, nosy neighbor lady
) Is this concern even something he should try to bring up with mom? I understand, and so does he, that it's a parenting difference-and she would probably take any effort to discuss it as a personal attack on her. Or, should he just have a sit down with the kids and make sure they know how to handle themselves when they're out in the neighborhood playing unsupervised like that? (The kids just turned 8, if that factors in at all). They've discussed stranger danger and all that stuff...but I guess it couldn't hurt to refresh their memory.
Thanks!
