Sticking my nose in

There's a girl in DD's preschool class (mostly 3's - this girl is 3.5). A couple weeks ago a bunch of us parents and kiddos were playing outside after class, and the dad came to pick up the girl, and basically threw her in the back seat - no carseat or booster present AT ALL in car, didn't buckle her, nothing. :thumbsdown: That's annoying, but whatever. I thought, well, not sticking my nose in, Dad doesn't usually pick up or drop off, so maybe he's totally clueless.

This morning, as I'm leaving, Mom and little girl drive up. Little girl in the FRONT SEAT, with her giantpuffycoat and Dora backpack on, no seat belt, no booster or otherwise vacated seat in the back, NOTHING. gah.

Here's where the gray area comes in - I don't talk to this mom, EVER. DD and her daughter don't get along in class (they're both very type-A, and butt heads a lot). We (meaning myself, preschool staff, and the nice policeman) are 95% certain it was Little Girl's dad who stole my breastpump from my car last month (if you remember that drama). So I'm inclined to just ignore it.

But if anything did happen to that kid, I would feel terrible. I mean, it's not her fault that her parents are (allegedly) crappy.

:thumbsdown:

Can you call up the "nice policeman" and suggest that he might want to hang around the drop-off line?

LISmama810 said:

Can you call up the "nice policeman" and suggest that he might want to hang around the drop-off line?

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yeah that!! I've been known to do that once or twice, that way it's not put on you necessarily.

I would just be phoning the cops with the licence plate number to make a report. At the very least it would be on file. But hopefully they'd either make a visit to their house, make a phone call, send restraint info in the mail, or tail them and pull them over. If all they did aws put it on file, at least if they were pulled over perhaps it would show up in their computer system when they ran the plates that this is a repeat offence and a ticket could be issued without a second thought of a warning.

On monday morning a dad was dropping his girls off at daycare, and had BOTH of them in the front seat, shoulder portion of the belt behind the girls, and the lap portion across their bellys. The girls are 2 and 4 years old. I called the police immediately even though the children were being dropped off, gave them the licence plate number, make of the car and they said they'd be making a house call.