My youngest child often has one friend come over every morning, and they walk to school together. Occasionally, another one or two friends join in, and they all walk to school together.
One of the other friends that I haven't seen in ages and probably met about three times knocked on the door before school and came inside. While waiting for my child to be ready and other friend to knock, I tried to make polite conversation like this:
Hey, how are you? How was the half term? Did you guys go away like .... mum because of school hours or does your mum not get the week off like me? There was no agenda, I was simply asking because a couple of both of my kids parents work school hours.
This kid couldn't have looked more uncomfortable and just said no my mum works. I genuinely didn't know what I did and left it at that.
Later that day both my kids were like "Mum you can't ask that anymore". I was like ask what if someone is lucky enough to have half term off to go away. They were like no, you can't ask private details anymore.
Am I going mad? I said to dh when we were younger we knew everyone's parents, where they worked, hobbies, etc it was no big deal. Maybe its because my mum and dad had a close circle of friends and so we knew if we couldn't reach them, we could reach our friends parents.
Now apparently you shouldn't talk to your kids' friends at all, let alone ask questions
Does anyone else experience this? I would be interested to know. There is so much going on in the world that I can't believe this is something I have to worry about
Please don't twist my words and be nasty. There was no agenda, I was simply trying to make polite conversation early in the morning.