to be considering contacting social services?

[CareBearStare]

Or perhaps a HV or GP?

I know a couple, very closely and if you had witnessed these things would you feel you would have to step it (perhaps anon?)

• Children 3 and 1 never go anywhere, never leave the house except very rare occasions.
• neither parent works so they do not get up at all in the day, the childrens sleep paterns alike them to noctornal creatures! - seriously both parents are on FB at 3,4,5am ... then you can't contact them till 6pm +
• they live with one of their parents - they live in a room upstairs. they only come out of that room when the parents aren't there.
• They both smoke weed. And I know the father has driven after doing so.
• The mother once laughed whilst telling me her DP had gotten up with their DS at 8am, put him in his highchair for breakfast but then her DP had fell back to sleep, so the child was in the high chair until the mum woke up and found him at midday.

NONE of this is exagerated or made up.

The mans mother has even talked about shopping them in.

I don't really speak to them anymore but we are still forced to be in contact and I find it very, very hard.

Do it. x

This is obviously very hard for you but you know what you must do.

I will echo others who have said it is the very quiet children that should be most worried about because they are so used to never having their needs met, that they have stopped making any demands. The high chair incident is a clear example of this.

is it just me or is anyone else really worried for those kids that we don't even know?

ONestonetogo yes. I have been thinking about them since reading this thread yesterday.

You have to get ss involved - for the children's sake, do it!

What an awful upbringing the poor mites are forced to have. Please tell ss! Noone need know you reported them! But it's so important for the children!

You have to report this it is awful

Carebearstare, how are those children?

can i just say to the OP ,that i reported someone to the social services and they didnt remove the child ,but they did work with the mother to better parent the child and it worked out well in the end for both of them .

Carebear please tell us you spoke to someone? For the childrens sakes.