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concerned parents & anger issue's
by DadinVA, Jan 26, 2008 07:47AM
What should I do? We have a boy in our neighborhood who moved in just a few months ago, we don't know the family well, and he has shown erratic behavior that concerns many parents in the neighborhood. It started when he first moved here. He would come over and ring the door at early hours on the weekend wanting my son (8 AM) to come out and play. I'd tell him no, and he'd come back again 15 - 30 minutes later and keep coming back and going to other kids house's in between coming to ours until someone would let him in to play or go outside. As we've seen him interact with our son, and other kids in the neighborhood, he wants to play but only if the kids will do what he wants to do. If they don't play his way, he gets angry. It's steadily grown to more anger issue's and odd behavior (ex: he announces that he wants a dog to my son while he is here and asks if he can buy or dog for $90.) and recently threatened a boy in the neighborhood that he was going to get his Dad's rifle and shoot him. Yesterday, the boy's were skateboarding and decided to go inside one of the kids home. The parents of that child have a strict rule that they don't allow kids in their house if the parents have not met the kid who wants to enter the house's parents first. The boy was not allowed to come in to the house while the other kids were. The kid got angry, went back to his house, grabbed an 8 inch knife, came back to the kid's house that he was not allowed into and stabbed their door twice threatening the children inside. This kid is 11 years old and is small and immature for his age. I don't know if we should call the police, confront his parents and/or tell his parents that their boy is not allowed near ours nor on our property.
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by teko, Jan 26, 2008 07:56AM
I would do all three. I would approach the parents and see if they are concerned at all with their childs behavior, altho it does not sound like it. I would put them on notice that under the circumstances and due to the knife incident you home is off limits to the child and that any future incidents would be reported to the police. Do not wait for someone to get hurt. This is serious.
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