They’re Not Indoor Children

(I’m outside with my kids. A neighbor is out walking with some of her kids, and she stops to chat. We talk for a few minutes, and then she laughs and looks down the street toward her house.)

Neighbor: “I’m going to have to put Missing Child signs out with my kid’s pictures on them so people know where to send my kids when they see them outside.”

(Confused, I look down the street. I see her three-year-old daughter riding her bike down the street, unaccompanied.)

Neighbor: *laughing* “That kid is always sneaking out of the house. I don’t know what to do with her!”

(And before people jump to conclusions, she is a good mom. I believe the three-year-old snuck out when her dad wasn’t looking, saw that Mom was down the street, and decided to come join her. She wasn’t wearing shoes, but she was wearing her helmet!)