Night of the living DEAD

Okay so we all want to be THAT parent...the cool one. You know the one with the house that Everyone LOVES to hang out at? So of course when my kids asked me to play night games last night I said YES!! Like any COOL Mom would.....I invited the whole neighborhood to come out and play and that they did. We had about 25+ kids ranging from 7 to 17. We divided into teams and dropped them off over a mile away in the DARK expecting them to get home without being caught. The Mom's drive around trying to spot the teams and if you get spotted you are OUT!! One of the Moms was a little nervous because our 7 year olds were playing and she was worried about them getting lost or left behind. I totally teased her and assured her that all will be well!! Well after about an hour all the teams but one had been found. The missing team that included my cute and super naive 10 year old daughter!!! The very one that had left her cell phone at home!! At first I was calm...but after driving around for 20 minutes yelling that the game was over and to come out with no sign of her...I started to FREAK OUT!! What a horrible parent I was for putting my sweet daughter into the the position of possibly being kidnapped or even worse....murdered. Was this Karma for teasing my friend was definitely coming back to bite me in the butt or what?? After contemplating calling the police...silently praying that she was okay...I finally I got the call that she and her friend had made it back home!! What a relief!! Seriously....I don't know if we will be playing night games ever again!! lol I was so scared!! Why is it that we as Parents are constantly pushing aside what we know is best for our kids just to please them in hopes that they will like us?? Why do we care if they like us anyways?? We are not their friends...we are their parents!! We are supposed to protect them and in return they will love us, right? lol Well time will certainly tell.....