PSA: Drug Seeking Mommies at your Neighborhood Play Date

Please take a moment to make sure that your prescription medications are locked up, or take a minute to order a medication safe.We know to keep prescriptions out of the reach of children, but I had a fellow parent take medication from my cabinet, last year, during a play date. Child locks be damned.The bottle was on a high shelf and the person asked for a bandaid to see where we kept things. Then, a bit later, she could borrow a book of mine. I believe she asked this to get me to leave the room.We had done group play dates before and really hit it off. This was our first “one-on-one” at my house, but far from the first time we’d gotten together.At the time, I convinced myself that I must have been wrong. We knew a lot of the same people and no one else talked about a problem. Also, we just had work done on the house, so there had been other people inside of it.I kept the person at arm’s length for over a year and felt guilty about it, as they were always so nice and and got along with everyone.I finally decided it would be okay to say yes when she asked to get the kids together to play.We had moved to a neighboring town and she asked if we could meet locally, as they were thinking of building a house near our new neighborhood. That morning, the weather looked iffy and she asked if we could just stay at our house.As I’m overly polite and socially awkward, I tried to just keep an eye on things. I told myself that it wasn’t as if she personally changed the forecast.This person tried (very hard) to do it again. They used the exact same “moves” as last time and kept trying to get me to leave the room.I caught them tying to look through my cabinets on two different occasions when I stuck my head, just partially, around the corner because my child started crying.I had our medications hidden, but the warning still needs to go out. I never would have thought this might be an issue in our quaint, suburban area.So... please protect yourself from theft or liability by locking up any prescriptions.Also, trust your gut and don’t second guess yourself.PSA over.(I changed some of the details to make it less recognizable. It seemed like the right thing to do.) via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2BxzJoV