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how to broach subject of shopping with cm

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thrifty · 09/02/2010 12:59

Hi,

I wondered if anyone can help me talk to my cm (and also friend) about shopping trips. Ds had been with cm since he was 1, he's now 4 and starts school in september.

over the last few months cm seems to do a lot of shopping trips with ds. term time he's at pre-school 2 mornings, so in the last couple of weeks, 2 of his 3 days with her have been treking round the shops. whilst I'm quite happy he's getting the excercise (30min walk into town), I'm not so happy that when i ask him how his morning was he says "we went to lots of boring shops". He has just admitted that they also went to the library today too, but mostly the shops.

I don't want to fall out with cm at all, we live very close together, her DD is friends with ds and I do like her. so how do i broach the subject that I'd rather she didn't trek him round the shops?

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lonelyplanetmum · 09/02/2010 13:46

As a start to the subject why don't you say you'd like to treat them to a trip to a local children's farm if there is one or some other local activity.

Then you can say ...yes he really likes doing things like that or we took him here at the weekend and I'm sure he'd like to go again.

You need to emphasis the positive and suggest the outings for them.

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