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I am a teacher, so maybe I am a little more intolerant of a child's behavior. However, I am also a mother with a very rambunctious four-year-old, so I see both sides of the coin. Still, I think as parents we have to put limits on our children. There is a mother in our neighborhood who has not quite gotten this concept. She has a boy the same age as my son. He is constantly wandering the streets at all hours. I have found him in our fenced-in backyard. I have found him in our garage, in our camper, and in our shed! This child definitely has no boundaries. He will even leave his toys in our yard for days and days. I allow my son to play with this boy, but they both have to be supervised by my husband or by me. When we try to send him home, he says he doesn't want to go home, and we have to shoo him away.
Actually, I feel sorry for this boy. I try to be nice, but I also don't want him in our yard at all hours of the day and night. I know that someday he will be in my high school class, and he will have many problems because of his upbringing. It's a classic story in the education system.