Thanks to everyone for their responses. I appreciate this site as it gives people such a great outlet to present a concern and ask for advice. And you learn alot, I feel, by the answers you get. Honestly, I feel that the child I've referenced in my post is simply doing one thing and one thing only.....spying for her mother. Her mother is nosy to the point of it being a disorder, in my opinion. The mother then takes the information, twists it around, and uses it against people. I know this because I've had conversations with the mother and stated my feelings on things, likewise my daughter has had conversations with this child and told her things only to have a person from somewhere else in the neighborhood approach me and bring up the same information, only it's been twisted and it's not what I said. When I ask who told them....never fails.....always comes back to the child or her mother. I apologize if I sound paranoid, I hope I don't. But others have had the same experience with this mother/daughter duo. Which is why I'm so sensitive to the constant intrusive questions from the daughter. I've met plenty of young children who like to ask questions and are just naive and curious and I thought they were so sweet. I didn't mind giving them information. But the child I referenced in this post, is not the naive, curious little child. She knows what she is doing and why she's doing it.