Rowdy Children Need Friends, but They also Need Supervision

    Parents understandably are hesitant about letting their children play with neighborhood kids who are rowdy, and sometimes on drugs.

   But, what of the kid who is rowdy? If the good kids don't play with him, who will be his friends? Who will end up being his (or her) influence?

   It becomes a good, caring parent, then, to  draw the rowdy neighborhood children in, to accept them, to let their children play with the neighborhood rowdies.

  But, only when they are supervised. Take your child and the rowdy child to the movies. Whatever activity the children do, be there to supervise them.