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.

Love this thread...not a play date but I volunteered to help on a school trip and a child told me I had massive bags under my eyes!

These are brilliant. I have found my people.

Y1 was the worst. "Where is the rest of your house?" (it's a 4 bed with a playroom!).

She also had it in for our 3yo. "I am the guest so you should give 3yo's placemat to me". It had his name on it!

Lots and lots of cool statements "3yo is stupid", over and over. He was a bit speech delayed and 3. It really brought out my mother hen and we had a mantra of "no one is stupid" for YEARS afterwards.

She seems to have grown up into quite a nice girl.

We live the poorer part of quite an affluent London borough and DS plays a sport that involves mixing with kids (mainly) from the richer side. One of their parents was giving my son a lift home and, as they drove through parts of the borough that perhaps these kids hadn't ever seen before, one turned to my DS and said " X, do you live in a ... flat".

DD, 7yo, has a playdate tomorrow with her new friend Susie (not real name) but I've decided to take them out somewhere instead and have booked tickets for the kids film at the local cinema, £2 a ticket for How To Train Your Dragon and then a little play in the park afterwards. Susie found me in the yard at home time yesterday to let me know "I've seen How To Train Your Dragon, I would much rather see Detective Pikachu" followed by "I do hope we're not going to park, it's horrible. Can we go to instead?" and then rounded off with "I've told you'll take us to McDonald's for lunch".

Will I now, Susie, will I....?

Oh God, I was probably one of these children although I was very well brought up and wouldn't have said a word, but would have thought some of these things. We lived in a lovely big house in a very nice part of London...I remember going round to a friend's house in a less affluent part of town and being horrified at how small it was and the microwave was in the living room rather than the kitchen. I thought they must be very poor.

‘Wow Betty, you have LOADS of washing! Look at that MASSIVE pile!!!’

It’s true 🤷‍♀️

My worst one was actually an adult! Friend's wife came over to our new house and said "oh, I wasn't expecting it to be so small". It was a 3 bed period cottage with 2 extra loft rooms so hardly a 1 bed flat, but she grew up in a mansion. Luckily she is no longer married to friend...

Small friend of DS asked if he could come to ours for a playdate and then excitedly changed it to an invite to come to his instead "because we have a big garden and it has 3 balls!" My heart melted a little, will have to tell DS to compliment the garden when he goes.

One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memory was telling a friend's mother that there was good news, our neighbour's house was for sale and when she asked why that was good I said because they could move into it 'and it's MUCH bigger and NICER than this and then your DC won't have to share a room'. I remember the sinking feeling as the atmosphere went frosty and then mum told me how rude and horrible I'd been on the way home (she was there when I said it, I think it was at pick up?). I genuinely didn't know what I'd done wrong, I thought grown ups just chose houses and lived in them and so I was offering helpful information!

My hairdressers child came with her to my house once and was so horrified at the state of DDs bedroom she rides it up. She’s welcome back .
We live with DD in a 3 bedroom house so she has a bedroom and a playroom. Next door has 4 kids in a two bedroom house. They are always but why does DD have two rooms or why does she have all this stuff. I’m always very careful to make sure DD downplays everything because it really doesn’t matter who’s got what.

*Tidied up up

Opposite situation but we had one lovey little lad who saw our trampoline and said "you have a trampoline!"

The happiness in his face was just gorgeous. 😊

DS went for a play date next door and asked them where the stairs were. They lived in the terrace next to us but it had been split into 2 flats. I was a bit mortified but he was 4 and I hope people wouldn't take offence. He was genuinely surprised.

We've had kids come to ours and ask where the garage was. But my favourite one was where's the maid? They only made me laugh.

Good thread.

Once had a primary school play friend over and when I served dinner - curry with quorn pieces said it looked like dog food (never had or seen quorn before)

P.s. it’s always worth remembering kids might comment but they value different things to us. My DD has more space and more stuff than next door but she’d trade it all for a sibling so she thinks they’re the lucky ones.

Some time ago my cousin lived near Wales at her parents 4 bed detached (lovely house) and I had just bought my one bed flat nr London. She walked in and told me it was small and not as big as her house 😂 yeah love but probably the same price. 🤔

We moved to a 2 bed place ( 4 kids ) as husband wanted a place to do up with a large garden , it was a hovel for a few years...it was nice before we moved in ! I didn't have any bad comments that I can recall from kids friends , in fact one told her mum our house was fabulous !....this was nearly 30 years ago , maybe kids were more polite then ?

I was brought up in a mansion, now live in a concrete council house. Shit happened!!

My DS once walked through someone's utility room and went 'what a little kitchen' he had never seen one before bless him.

Loving some of these! 😂

Nothing was actually said but DS had a friend to play and stay for tea and this friend came from quite a well-to-do family with a detached house in a nice road, personalised number plates on their convertible etc etc. They must have been about 7 or 8 at the time.
I'd been busy putting laundry away upstairs and when I came down, this child was casually walking across all of my work surfaces!!!!
I was 😯 and said in a shrill voice to get down because we don't walk on work-tops in my house and he looked at me as if I was an absolute loon!
He wasn't invited back 😉

One of mine on a playdate said to a mum, this kitchen would be really nice if you cleaned it up a bit. He was 5. Its not even as if I am great at keeping things clean all the time.

You always get one of these, I find. The kid who's actually become DS1's best mate and who has improved greatly over the years was very snobbish to start with. I remember the first time he got in my car he said 'Oh, you don't have TV screens in the back of your car. My mum's Porsche has them'. I replied 'How marvellous!' and assumed that his 4-year-old self wouldn't get my thinly veiled sarcasm. Then we got to our house and he said 'Your house is MUCH smaller than ours', to which I cheerfully replied 'Oh don't worry, we're building a much bigger one!'. That seemed to satisfy him. If I'd told his DM what he'd said she'd have been horrified - she's very nice.

And we had the whole 'I'm the guest and so I should decide'. I nipped that one in the bud with 'Nope! This is my house and I decide!'

About 40 years ago my mum told me that you can always tell when a man is a murderer as they wear leather gloves. Cue the play date with my friend and time to leave. Her dad offered to drive me home and put on his leather gloves. I screamed and ran all the way home.

@ElsieMc

I’m afraid I would have bollocked her arse.

Arranged to share drop offs and picks with a mum around corner whose kids were going to the same summer camp. 7 year old girl couldn't stop commenting on our car "Wow, it's so dusty and messy." Admittedly it could have done with a hoover, but messy? A few comics in the back seat holders for longer journeys. Grrr.