dd is 11 and at secondary school. (We live about 5 mins walk from school) Today she returned home with a friend in tow. I have met this girl before, but have never met her parents or even spoken to them in my life. Apparently, dd randomly asked this friend round without clearing it with me first, the girl called her folks in the middle of the day who said fine and she just turned up. It really wasn’t a good time, but I let her come in for just over an hour. She had 3 phone numbers for her parents with her - a home one, a mobile one and a work one - I’ve basically been ringing them all for the last couple of hours, but no reply from any of them.
I had to send her home an hour ago - the girl said she’d her door key, always walks home on her own and her parents wouldn’t bat an eyelid if she got home earlier than expected. My daughter walked her back to school and then she was going to walk back home on her own from there.
I’ve no idea if I did the right thing, what’s normal - I have never had someone come round without speaking to parents first. It felt really wrong to just send her home like that, but I teach from home on Monday evenings and had a pupil due round so couldn’t walk her home (and not sure whether that would have been OTT anyhow. Still trying to reach her parents to check she’s safely home - have left messages. Still no reply.
Am I being silly? I’m still getting my head around parenting a secondary school child...