Well... there's overprotective, and there's unprotective. Seems to me that "Knowing the location of the kid" is just basic.
Well, she figures that knowing they are at the neighbor's house ~is~ knowing their location. Even if she doesn't know exactly which neighbor.
But she's only lived there a few months and barely knows her neighbors. I think she's crazy for even letting my nephew wander about in that manner.
Anyway, Becky's over it now. She washed her snit away in the tub. :-)