Youāve to be cruel to be kind @bandage. Tell the child to fuck off home. Itās an extremely weird situation but the longer you take a softly softly approach then the longer heāll hang around.
Thanks for input, team. Think weāll need to tell him more forcibly to go home next time he shows up at our house (cc @Mac). Weāve done the softly, softly approach and said that weāre not heading out now but might be out later and he sits at the gate and comes back and knocks again regularly!
@caulifloweredneanderthal - we donāt know the parents at all. I just have a vague recollection of some woman playing with him that first day.
@binkybarnes - never mind Fritzl, my life partner got spooked by his chat today and was going on about the Jamie Bulger case afterwards. On the other hand, heās been calling to our house for over a week and we could be the Dublin 5 version of Fred and Rosemary West for all his parents know.