Are you letting other kids into your house?

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DC spend all day playing with the neighbour's kids (who have just come back from Italy) but the weather is so foul at the moment that they can't play out. In two minds as to inviting them in or not. So far since lockdown, we've only had DD's best friend inside the house - as they're inseparable at school it seemed pointless to refuse.

No

Infact I'm making the most of not having to have tonnes of other kids round trashing my house!!!

Yes. Only dd's 2 best friends, and only one at a time. But yes, since they're at school all day with each other it doesn't make sense to keep them apart after school. It is still allowed here, and there's never more than 6 people in the house.

Not so far. But in 2 weeks it's Ds2's birthday, so he's having 2 school friends back home.

No restriction where I am so have allowed dd to have one friend over.
There are only three of us at home so under rule of 6.

No we aren’t hosting currently and there is still SD in place which children tend to forget at times. We aren’t seeing our friends indoors so they know it’s all of us making sacrifices for a short while.

Yes, it is allowed here. I have no problem with it at all.

Yes. No local lockdown, no masks. Just letting kids be kids!

Yes but only within the rule of six so maximum 2 friends each at a time from their school bubble, and we keep 2m apart from them.

No, it is forbidden... (Wales)

Yes, my kids friends come and go from our house. I'm not teaching my kids to be afraid of interacting normally with their friends.

@Awrite - in scotland you're not allowed into each others houses- age doesn't matter

No. DH was shielding, and is still being very cautious.

He's also working from home. There are too many bits of confidential kit lying around the house that pre teen boys would be too excited about.

I’m relaxed about my children having a friend over. Cases are very low here. We stay within the rules though.

Yes we’re still having play dates within the ‘rule of six’ - kids + accompanying parent. Only people from within school bubble (not that I’d veto other children visiting, it’s just that most friends are from
School).

Yes we are. Only children who are in their year group bubbles anyway.

No, in Scotland. Weather is crap so wish I could.

Yes so long as no more than 6 in the house altogether, it's fine.

Yes. Lots of Play dates taking place in my eldest class. We’ve had friends over and
My dd has been Over to others.

We were until local lockdown. The last 2 weeks my daughters friends have waited outside in the rain while she gets changed after school (where they're in a tiny room together) so they can walk to dance together (where they're in a slightly larger room together). Seemed really ridiculous but now 3 of them have covid and DD is having to self isolate so on reflection it was probably right not to allow extra mixing!

Yes within school bubble, rule of 6, very local area (eg. Neighbours)

Yes. We're having friends over on Friday

Yes. We don't have children in often anyway, but DS1 has had his best mate over and our neighbour from DS2's class has been round.

When they've spent 30 hours per week hanging around together, mostly in a classroom it makes minimal difference.

DS1 has ASD and it's important for him to learn normal social skills for life and not be encouraged to have social phobias. Encouraging him to distance from his peers and view other people as contaminated is very damaging territory and could be very difficult to remedy.

Yes, but just one friend over at a time,who is in the same bubble at school.

DH has two kids from a previous relationship so they move between our house and their mum’s but we are not currently allowing them to have any friends over.