My ex is accusing me of being a helicopter parent, we go together for lunch with a mutual friend to a cafe with outside seating. Our DD 20 months loves running around people in this country love love love kids so it’s fine but she likes to run past the cafe (pedestrian residential sort of thing perfectly safe) but I (she’s in pink).
I don’t want her going past the Italian without supervision for 3 reasons, she might bother people at the fancy Italian, the flats all have secure locking doors (a bit out there) but she might get locked in a building or snatched they have big foyers so she can go out of sight easily and the Italian is halfway between the cafe and the other main road.
Sorry about the spelling grammar I have dislexia, I have attached diagram hopefully this will help clear things up.
Am I being precious? Dd is my first and is only 20 months.