Both of the children were a bit older, so he was not constantly monitoring their every move. Instead, his attention shifted from watching the girl, who was playing with another set of children, and watching his son, who was also playing in a separate area with another group of children. Periodically however, he was texting on his phone. This texting interrupted his watching the children. The girl would go to him for a couple of minutes at a time, but then she would run off with her friends again. The son did not approach his father again once he was playing with the other kids. The father was however, sitting less than ten feet away from the areas where both of his children were playing. The father in this case was careful in terms of periodically observing what his children were doing and where they were, but he could have been...

He did take the safety precaution of sitting next to them at all times, and sitting at a closer distance. By doing this, he was able to be aware of any suspicious activity around his children. A suggestion that I would give to him about the monitoring of his children would be to get off his phone. Any slight distraction could lead to negative consequences. Along with the other set of caregivers observed, he did not really look around the play area too often to see who the other adults around him were. Any suspicious individual could be singled out by simply looking around one's surroundings.