On holiday abroad currently with our 2DC (12 and 13). We were at a swimming pool today on the next complex to ours. Our boys met up with another boy (13) and they hung around together etc. Boy’s family had just arrived so wanted to go for a walk. One of our boys came over and asked ‘can X stay with us while they go for a walk?’ Boy’s mum hears and comes over and says ‘he’s begging to stay here...’ I feel slightly under pressure but don’t mind too much, so I say yes. I tell her I’ll keep a close eye on him. She says thanks and leaves. The boys are then on water slides, in the pool, at the toilet, in the shop etc and we’re constantly watching our to make sure this boy’s ok and we know where he is all the time. The parents were gone for over two hours! Our boys knew I was watching closely as I kept asking ‘does X want a drink?’ etc so after about 2 hours 10/15 mins, one of our DC came and said ‘X’s mum and dad are back now’. They had come back from their walk and found themselves some sun loungers which happened to be out of our view and just settled back down. No word to us. We saw them several times after that, walking right past our loungers to get drinks etc without even a glance in our direction. Rude?! I’m all for helping out but it feels like a case of CFery to me! Won’t be doing that again in a hurry!