The cutting play date guest 🙄

[Ledkr]

Anyone else has one of these?
Over the years I've had many.
Todays 7 year old.

Your house is MUCH smaller than ours.

Don't you have a piano?

Why is the basin so small in here (downstairs loo)

I felt quite judged. 😂

She did at least eat what I have her which is unusual.

I had the opposite too. ‘Your house is so big, it’s much bigger then x’s house. That’s why I said no to a sleepover to x’ I wasn’t too impressed for poor little x. You can’t just take what you think is a better offer when you’ve already agreed. Partly the parents fault I’d say.

I had a lovely little 6 year old who when I served dinner (chicken burgers and chips) told me he didn't eat that and what else did I have. He then proceeded to help himself through my cupboards to see what he could have instead. After many offers of alternatives to which he said no I saw a tin of spaghetti hoops and said what about spaghetti hoops and toast. Yes! I love spaghetti he said. Thank God I thought. I duly heated them up and thought all was well with the world. Gave it to him and he looked very confused and said but that's not spaghetti. I couldn't argue with that one. He just had toast

Another little girl asked to use the toilet and my mum happened to be near the outside of the toilet and the little girl saw her and asked her if she was our toilet attendant. My mum just said yes

One of dds friends lives in a very tidy and organised house. Another has a mother who never cooks. They both used to love coming to ours as it always smelt great (home cooking) and was so relaxed (untidy).

Visiting 5 yo: "Haven't you got a Hoover?"

Guest at DD's 8th b'day party (a pass-the-parcel in the garden type thing): "I like this type of party where nobody has organised anything."

Children pick up on what they hear their parents say, so remember that next time the little ones come out with stuff!

We live in a flat. One young guest couldn't believe we didn't have any stairs anywhere to another floor!

I put a large pizza on the table and the guest, instead of taking a slice like my kids did, proceeded to eat all of the toppings off the whole pizza leaving a pizza base with the red sauce and a few straggly bits of cheese that clearly no one else was going to want to eat. I’d been getting drinks in the kitchen so only walked in as they were finishing and too late to stop it. Both my kids were a bit .
Child then ate some cucumber sticks (which were sucked extensively first) and then told me they were still hungry. I suggested they ate a slice of pizza. They replied they didn’t like the look of it.
Probably because pizza that has been stripped of its topping doesn’t look that appetising.

I’m definitely the ‘poor relation’ in my family. Visiting nieces/nephews have commented on our small house but i find it amusing.

It’s never said with malice.

“One toilet? Just... one? How does that work? We’ve got THREE.”

Sharing a toilet with your family. Who knew that was a thing?

Yes the first play date I hosted (age 4) said ‘where’s the rest of your house’ and then walked into the kitchen and said ‘omg that is the smallest kitchen I’ve ever seen’ It made me laugh though. Since then, most kids have asked where the playroom is and looked a bit shocked we don’t have one

About 4 years old playing with my dd noticed me cleaning the sink and asked why I was doing it, I explained it was stained from the curry the day before, why don't you get Maria to do it she says - apparently Maria came in 3 days a week to her house (though poor kid wasn't allowed in sitting room or dining room at her house, only her playroom and kitchen downstairs .

More recently (we moved north) it's us with the bigger house so I hope my kids weren't rude!

DDs friend said to me. "When are you moving house?" Surprised I said "we are not moving house why do you ask?"
"But you must be" says she "your house is tiny!"

8 yo visiting us. They have much bigger newer house. Clearly been asked by their mum to not mention. Walk in and does ott 'your house is just lovely'

All good.

Then later

'Where do you actually eat?' Not in a ride way just utterly confused 😬

We have no dining table as no space

It wasn't a playdate here, but one of DD1s friends knocked to walk to school together (they're 9).
She took a long look into our hall, which granted was very messy and cluttered and told me,
'Its really messy in here Dino's, my mum likes to keep our house really tidy.'
It was true TBF, but I didn't need it pointing out by a child or adult. I was working 6 days a week at the time, trying bloody hard to juggle shit loads and priorities were everyone fed, nobody dead.

It took me about three days to find my sense of humour and laugh about it. But I did say to my DC you must never comment on the state of other people's houses, it's really rude.

One little girl who came to play with DD when she was in yr1 after seeing our cat exclaimed 'pets are dirty and they make your food furry'.

she didnt eat the tea I made.

This thread has made me realise that my time of playdates is probably over. DD is 10 now

DS’s 5-yo friend came for tea for the first time, walked into our v average standard house and said “Oh this is LOVELY”

He’s been invited back many times

Dd had a best friend who was a boy. They had been reading Stig of the Dump at school and it had really captured world imagination. He came to play after school. Ideal guest. Happy,, outside playing. When his mum come to collect him he exclaimed excitedly “Mum, look, Mabel’s garden in a dump, mummy. A real one”. He was right!

*their imagination

I remember when I was about 7 or 8, my parents had just rented a new colour TV. We went to my aunt's house and were watching TV when I commented how different it was when it wasn't in colour.
It wasn't a stealth boast, just the unguarded remark of a child, my aunt and uncle were not best pleased; but I couldn't understand their reaction, to me I was just pointing out a fact.

DD’s BFF lives next door but one to us and they have been friends since they were babies ( now 13)
Her parents are nice but absolute clean freaks and with 2 dc, an untidy husband, 2 cats (3 at the time) and a big hairy dog our house isn’t really up to their standard. This girl went through a bit of a diva stage around age 4-6 and became a bit of a pain, I suspect there was a bit of low level bullying of dd as well. Having known here since birth I generally put up with her and dd seemed to still want to have her round.
One day when I was a bit frazzled she came round and asked if she could play, I let her in and she instantly said “ your house is sooooo messy” for whatever reason I wasn’t in the mood so I grabbed her and dd, took them to the BFFs ( immaculate) house and shoved them BOTH through the front door saying “ S says my house is very messy so I thought they could both play here while I tidy up” and left
About a week later I was giving the girls a lift somewhere, BFF got in and said “ Hopping, your car” I said “Yes?” She replied “ nothing”

Living in the gulf so slightly skewed,
" Is your chef having a day off ?" When I made pancakes for a five year old over on a playdate.

The funniest one I ever had was actually cutting to my brother. He was round for a cuppa and said he better get home to sort his laundry out and she looked at him horrified and said "Don't you have a wife to do that for you???"

Every time she came by after that I made a point of breaking gender stereotypes to try and balance her a bit!

Some of them don't grow out of it. When I was a teenager, my rather well off friend came to my semi-detached house and declared that it made her feel "claustrophobic" and "how do you cope living here?!"

I went in and out through her, spoiled brat.

Not cutting exactly, but my ds (8 at the time) apparently asked his friend's mum, apropos of nothing, what she thought of Boris Johnson. When she said that she wasn't a massive fan he said "oh good, because he's a total idiot"

This thread is making me laugh.

My best one is when I served up jacket potatoes, cheese and beans (food of the gods) and my DDs friend enthusiastically said "This is what my mum makes when she can't be bothered" 😂
We still laugh about that one.