Driving along a residential road round the corner from my home, I saw a toddler dressed in T-shirt and nappy riding a trike along the pavement completely alone, looking a bit bewildered. I wasn't sure, but thought I knew where she lived, and, sure enough the front door was open and her big brother/sister was playing on the pavement a couple of houses along. I pulled over, rang the doorbell and told the mum, who dashed off down the road to retrieve her dd. She was out of sight round the curve of the road about 5 houses and half a park away.
But what gets me is firstly the fact that these children are always playing unsupervised on the unfenced front lawn or the car on the drive, with the front door open. How can the mum feel this is safe? I think that they're less than 2yo and about 3yo. Does she expect the older one to supervise the younger? And the other thing that gets me is that the only other person on the street at this time was another woman who was obviously aware that something was wrong, that the child was unaccompanied, yet she just walked on - did nothing!