Don't be a creeper

We're all for keeping a child-like mentality. If you knew us, you'd probably say we are terribly immature (to which we say what makes maturity so awesome). We're okay with that. Different strokes for different folks and so on. There's something wrong, though, when an adult spends time with children as an equal. 

Our co-worker Mosquito has a group of preteens who love her. This is not, in and of itself, a problem. Kids admire adults. The problem is in how Mosquito interacts with those kids. She sits under tables with them. Blows off business lunches to go to their speeches. Got invited to their slumber party. AND ATTENDED. Yes, you read that right. Mosquito, who is thirty, went to a slumber party with a group of twelve year old girls. Mosquito who is old enough to be their mother went to a slumber party not as a chaperone but as an active participant. Does that seem as wrong to you as it does to us?

It troubles us that not only do our co-workers see no problem with this situation (they are idiots, after all) but the parents are okay with it too. We wouldn't let our preteens run around in pajamas with an adult.

Mosquito seems to be suffering under the delusion that she is still a child. Wake up and smell reality, Mosquito. You are a business professional. You are likely sprouting your first gray hairs. Childhood is behind you and no amount of cavorting with your child posse will bring it back.

Are you listening, Mosquito?