Our family just moved to a new town with a population of about 2,000 people. My daughter Mackenzie has started this thing of taking off when ever she feels like and to add to it sometimes she will take off with her 2 year old sister Lydia and 14 month old brother Trace and not tell any one where she is going. We have taken away privileges, grounded her to her room, not allowed her to play at other peoples homes, the list goes on and on. Well over the weekend Mackenzie took off again with her brother and didn't tell any one. Lydia saw her toddler friend out next door and asked my husband and I if she could go play. My husband took her over while I called around looking for our oldest. He found her next door with Trace when he took Lydia over to play with her friend. He was so mad at her he told her to get her little butt inside the house. While inside he tells her  what her punishment is, she of course gets upset and starts to cry it's not fair and how Lydia is the one who wanted to go over (yet Lydia asked first and wasn't even with Mackenzie at the time she took off) and makes this big stink and starts to throw things. My husband grabbed her by her shoulders and put her in the corner for a time out and tells her that she's lucky if he did that as a child his dad would haven taken a belt to him.

  Today while I was laying Trace down for a nap she took off again this time with Lydia in tow. I tracked her down at her friends house and told her to come home. Well she came home and so did her friends that is when I heard her  tell her friends how she went out to find her sister because she left the yard and when she got home her dad told her that he was mad and that he wanted to beat her up because he likes to beat people up because it's fun. I yelled at her for it and told them it's not true but the damage has been done. People already look at my husband and wonder what kind of person he is because he has long hair, a goatee, and is built like a biker. Now my daughter is spreading rumors around about him wanting to beat her. My husband works with kids for one of his jobs plus does lots of volunteer work for an area park district doing coaching. If this gets out of hand he could lose his job and the coaching he loves to do. This town is so small that I'm afraid of what may happen. What on earth do I do.

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