So here are the facts.
We are new to our estate. One neighbour has taken a keen interest in being friendly and asking a million questions, he’s very nosey.
He loves telling neighbours he knows us and is over familiar towards us when other neighbours are around.
One day I was walking and I saw him walking towards me after a run, he spotted me, ran again then stopped as though he was just stopping for the first time. Quite performative.
He has a DD 3 similar age to mine and they do like to play outside (supervised) When he speaks to my children he tends to get up close to talk to the them, in their face sort of.
One day he took my DD’s hand and spun her around like he was dancing with her, but did so vigorously and she fell, he didn’t care or comment. He takes a keen interest in what she’s wearing and will touch her clothes to ask what’s that picture type things on your top. Happened maybe 3 times.
His daughter is a lovely kid, but incredibly withdrawn in my opinion.
His wife is lovely but I have never seen her out with her DC without him, ever. They walk to collect the children from nursery every single day as a family, I mean nothing wrong with that, but unusual as I don’t see anyone else do that. I feel like he can’t leave his wife to talk to anyone else without supervision.
He attends DD’s and his DD’s baby ballet class to watch as a full family unit, where as I just take DD and DH and other DC stay at home.
I don’t get a good vibe. Am I being harsh or should a man ever touch or dance with another child. When it happens I feel frozen. Like, he’s my neighbour. I can’t say don’t touch my kid cause what he’s doing is somewhat harmless but also in my opinion crossing a boundary. I can’t start an argument. As it stands, our children will attend same school, we live in the same estate, we’re pretty stuck with them. And he’s always outside walking passed our house.
Any thoughts?