Our kind neighbors took on my 3 oldest kids the other night while Aron was out of town so I could have some peace while the baby slept on me and I watched Madmen.
After an hour I hear the neighbor girl crying. I investigate.
She tells me that Joel threw a walnut at her and hit her in the head. Then she slipped on something and fell down.
Joel says, “She told me to throw walnuts at her. We were playing circus.”
I asked, “If she told you to shoot her in the foot, would you do that?”
And ya’ll wonder why I don’t think kids under the age of 12 should be left home alone, let alone left to care for younger siblings.
Maybe when my own kids are grown I’ll be a lobbyist for laws like that. By then I’ll have all kinds of good stories to share with Congress.
