Reply To: Watching Children Carefully

APY, ranting is good for the soul. It enables us to blow off steam before we act. I don’t know if you were referring to me or not in your last response, but I want to assure you that when I returned the missing child, I DID tell the mother off, in a quiet but unmistakeable way about how close she came to losing her precious baby. She was a choshuveh rebbetzin in my neighborhood, btw, and I was extremely uncomfortable giving her mussar.

I would never call CPS on a parent without a) asking a shailah if this was mosering and b) warning the parent that I would do so if I ever saw the neglect again.