I’d say this family has their hands full with this little girl!
You bet they do. I had one of my daughters do something similar the day after her 4th birthday, which thankfully falls in August.
She took the ten dollar bill she had gotten for her birthday, and while I was tending her infant sister, strolled the half a block down the street to the drug store, purchased a roll of Necco wafers, and strolled home, with the candy and nine dollars and seventy-five cents in change in small brown paper bag. Oh, and she was wearing only her panties. Needless to say her teen years were a nightmare.
This woman is now a nurse in the ICU, and has a daughter exactly like her.
Many years ago I was living in an apartment. One warm morning I decided to eat my breakfast on the front stoop. It was early in the morning on a weekend. No one was out.
My head was buried in the morning paper when I heard this tiny voice say “hi.” I looked up and there was a toddler by herself clad in pajamas and slippers walking up the street. I called her over, took her inside and tried to find out where she lived. Of course, she didn’t know. So I called the police.
The police had come and were about to take her away when this very distraught man came along. The little girl said, “Daddy!”
Turns out, while the rest of the family was sleeping, she got up, put a chair by the door, got up on the chair and unlocked the door. Then she just went out. No one in the house heard her and didn’t know she was missing until the mother got up and found out the little girl was missing.
The police talked to the parents and there was nothing amiss in the household. This little girl just wanted to take a stroll. Kids are quicker and often a lot smarter than us adults.
Waht! At that time of day she belongs back home watching “Baby Channel”!