Hi all
My daughter ( 16) has come home and told me that her friend ( 16) had an awful half term week and was left in charge of her 13 yr old brother the whole week. Her mum has a newish boyfriend and he took her away for the whole week, this friend was told not to tell anyone they were alone and had to pretend on the two occasions they saw their dad, that mum was out shopping! Also she left them with no money to buy food or to go out or do anything with!!
The daft thing is there is family local to them and her dad was only local too but the fact that they couldn’t tell any I thought was out of order.
I don’t want to get too involved as this will backfire on dds friend but I personally feel to put a 16 yr old in charge of her younger brother for that period of time , with no money, and keep it secret was bang out of line and those kids could have been at risk, 6 nights alone in the house plus 16 yr old has GCSEs coming up soon. I feel as a mother really cross. My 16 yr old babysits my 10 yr old regularly but I’d never go away a week expecting her to parent her younger brother!
Thoughts please, am I overreacting?
I just feel sad that dds friend had such responsibilities and they could’ve actually come to us a few times for meals at least 😐