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Dear Amy: I have a neighbor who was previously convicted of a sexual offense involving a “child.” He served time in jail. I don’t know the exact circumstances, but I do understand that the term “child” may include a person as young as an infant and as old as a teenager. The sexual offender is married with two young children.

I know that he and his wife want to keep his history private. However, the other neighbors around where I live are not aware of the situation and their kids play and interact with the sexual offender’s family. Do I need to inform the unknowing neighbors about his status as a sex offender, or should I remain silent?

Uncertain: You don’t say how you know about this offense, but you should take it as a given that these neighbors don’t want others to know that he is a convicted sexual offender. But this is not up to them.

Convicted sex offenders are assigned a status: level one, two, or three. Level one is considered “low risk of re-offense” and level three “high risk of re-offense.” Each state maintains a sex offender registry. You can check the registry within your Zip code to see if your neighbor is registered and what the classification is.

The reason the registry exists is because people should know if sex offenders live in the community because of the need to protect children from predators. Wearing this virtual scarlet letter is the ongoing consequence of committing a sex crime against a child.

Your neighbors should reveal the offender’s conviction and if he is classified as low-risk, they should reveal that and explain the circumstances — for instance, if he was 19 and had a sexual relationship with a person under the age of consent in his state. (A convicted person can go to jail with a level one offense, but the penalty also seems to depend on the state where the offense occurred.) In short, I am suggesting that the convicted offender and his wife do the ethical thing by notifying others of his criminal status.

They most likely won’t do that, and so yes — you should let parents in your circle know. People notified should make every effort to independently verify the information through a neutral source, such as the sex offender registry. (Check <a href="http://nsopw.gov/" target=_blank>nsopw.gov</a>.)

Dear Amy: I have a weird parenting question. My four-year-old takes a short nap after she comes home from preschool. After her nap yesterday she came down the stairs and her hair had been cut! She denies doing this and is very upset.

Her bangs were cut all the way up to her hairline, and one whole side was cut short, while the other was left longer. I am worried that she would do this. It seems really dangerous and self-harming. And she denied doing it, when she obviously did. So she’s lying.

My husband and I are not sure what to do about this. We don’t know how worried we should be.

Worried: Congratulations — you have just passed a near-universal rite of passage for parents of four-year-olds. Children this age seem compelled to cut their hair. And most of them lie about it. (I remember blaming my sister for cutting mine while I was asleep.) This is not self-harming. This is beautifying. And curiosity. And a growing awareness of how scissors work. (It’s quite remarkable that kids who do this don’t seem to injure themselves.)

Stay calm and good-humored. Tell your daughter that hair takes a long time to grow and now that it is cut, she will have to be patient while it grows back. Tell her that scissors are very sharp and that she needs to ask you if she wants to use them. Take her to a salon or barbershop to have a professional even things out. (Correcting these self-haircuts is probably why the “pixie cut” was invented.)

Your child's preschool teachers are a great source of wisdom. Ask for their advice.

Dear Amy: I cried when I read these words in reply to the question from “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2024/04/09/ask-amy-daughteralcoholic-treatment/" target=_blank>Scared Mom</a>,” about her daughter’s alcoholism: “ Offer her a judgment-neutral safe harbor so she won’t become isolated, and encourage her to seek treatment without letting her alcoholism become her primary identity in your relationship.” Thank you!

Parent: Alcoholism is a family disease; it will consume everyone’s life — if you let it.

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