My daughter recently had a birthday and wanted her friend to come round to the house to play as we had been on holiday for her birthday and she didn’t have a proper party.
I had spoken with her friend’s mum and said I would do them both a little tea party and they can play for a few hours, she agreed she would drop her off at 2pm on the Sunday. When she arrived, she had my daughter’s friend and her younger sister with her. I welcomed them in but didn’t expect her and the younger sister to stay. It was a quite awkward as I’ve never actually spoken to the mum before as I rarely see her at the school.
They stayed for around 5 hours and the conversation felt very forced and a little hard to talk to her as she is polish and although she speaks quite good English she still didn’t understand what I was saying some of the time.
I felt awkward the whole time and was relieved when they had left. I was also looking forward to my daughter being distracted with her friend for a while so I could get some unpacking and washing done.
My daughters never had friends round before and I’m wondering if this is normal for parents to stay? Or would you leave your child and pick them up later?