6 year old in my house for 6 hours no parents have looked for her?

[Crazymoo82]

My 6 year old brought one of her friend into play at 12 today. The girl is a neighbour however she lives at one end of a rather long street and we live at the other . My dd has to come tell me if she is going into her friends house, should say though that the friend I means is not the girl here atm. Dds friend is only 3 doors down and I can see the house from my garden. However this other girl has been here for 6 hours now, she hadn't had lunch when she came in so I gave them some, asked her if her mum knows where she is she said no she is at the shops! Also gave her dinner now as I wasn't going to give my dds and leave her out. Aibu to be pissed off at this girls parents for 1 going to shop and just leaving her playing In the street, 2 not bothering to look for their dd for so long?
My daughters go out to play they must stay in the garden or if going to play with others then I watch or walk up with them and they all play in one of our gardens together. If my dds had been away for 6 min alone I would be going crazy!

She's six!!! Why just take her word for it that her parents are out shopping and why in God's name would you not check?!!

Yeah right!

Oh. Classic drip feed there, nicely done.

Hmmm

Is this one of those 'crap parenting' threads? I thought that spate had died down. It's all about people looking at other people now

Odd how that last post cme after everyone gave you the answer you didn't want.

It's a bit last season isn't it Hake

This takes me back to when I invited a friend home for tea. I has assumed she had told her mum. Halfway through the evening, it was apparent she hadn't. I suggested she phone her mum. She wouldn't but I got the number and phoned. Her poor mum!

Dad and I took her back on the bus. She didn't even thank us!

Lmao was literally about to call Bs on the thread when suddenly everything got resolved so nicely. 😂 this is ridiculous even as made up threads go

I'm not surprised tbh as kids from age 3 play out in our street and will just walk into your house. My kids always have to come and tell me where they are before going into anyone's house/garden and I always get the parents ok before having kids from the street playing in my house.
In your situation op if I couldn't get an answer at the door I would have called the local police number for advice. A 6 yo shouldn't be left with no-one looking after them. I certainly wouldn't have given them anything to eat unless I was sure about allergies. One of my children has quite a few allergies and knows what to avoid but a 6 yo wouldn't necessarily know.

I never let neighbour children in unless they had told parents where they were. Can't be sure none ever lied, but if they knocked asking to play I sent them off to tell parents where they were before letting them in. Also sent them off to check it was ok for them to eat with us.

Police were called on my street when a child went missing. He was at another child's house, the mum went out to gym telling them not to answer the door.

6! Fucking 6! I wouldn't dream of letting her out of my sight never mind going to the shops. I would report to social services. What a shame, poor love

Kids are literal. So yes mum is at the shops. But does not mention that gran is at home.

Oh my goodness! Take her home - they may be frantic.

Well gran wasn't answering the door if she was home.

Depends on the street really. There are streets where all the kids are in and out of each other houses running about and playing . There are streets where no one does it,kids have to let someone know or more likely are escorted around by parents.

Okay thennnnn.

I don't think it's normal on any street to fuck off out and leave your 6yo for 6 hrs without asking anyone to keep an eye on them

One parent went out shopping, cinema or visiting friends/family, leaving the DD at home with the other one who was too engrossed in the rugby to notice that DD wasn't around?

Rwgardless.of how irresponsoble her parents may be, you have behaved very irresponsibly in letting her in to your house without checking with her parents first. You need to take her home immediately.

Why haven't you taken her back to find out yourself, you're the adult, a 6 year old might have misunderstood and told you a lie.

I was up stairs with a migraine one holidays when a friend turned up for 6yo ds. Dd1 (14yo) answered the door and came to tell me that he'd come round and his dsis (dd1's age) had knocked at the door with him and said he wanted to play, was that okay and she had said fine. Friend was going two doors down and said she'd call for him when she went, and would text her mum to let her know he was with me.

No problem, he's a nice lad, she's a nice (and responsible child)
They played in the garden and round the house with me keeping half an ear on them and had been there about 2 hours when I heard someone shouting. As they got closer I realised it was this lad's (fairly common) name being called.
I staggered out of bed and outside, in time to meet his mum who was by this point fairly panicked.
Turned out his sister had dropped her phone in water, and so it wasn't working, and she'd left an upset message on answerphone from saying in a tearful way that they were going to try and get it fixed at X's house, Dbro wasn't with them and she couldn't remember where he'd gone! Mum didn't have any contact numbers for where they were going so couldn't ask them.
What she meant was she couldn't remember the address, if she'd given ds' name it would all have been fine.

After that we had an arrangement if he came round I'd send a text message just to let her know he was here.

I wouldn't have fed him without checking with her though.