Would you let your 10 year old do this?

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Me and dp can't agree.

Dc 10 has been invited to a new classmate's birthday party along with the rest of the class. The party is at their house. I have never met the parents and only ever seen the child once, never spoken to them. As there will be so many children (hopefully) going, they have requested that parents do not stay.

Would you let your dc go?

I’d let my child go. Arrive a little before the end so you can see what the party was like.

But what extra information would you gain from a short meeting with the parents? I mean, what kind of thing would you glean from a few superficial school gate type meetings that would make you think oh god not a chance?

@Weal they have never been in a strangers house without me.

To know they actually exist lol

@ThatsANiceHandbag so you think it's all a ploy from parentless children to lure your child in some kind of Lord of the Flies situation?

You said the whole class is invited, someone must know them?

Yes definitely.

Definitely. Presumably you’ll have the address to drop off/pick up? You’ll usually have sight of the parents at some point.
I wouldn’t have stayed at a 10yr old’s Birthday unless I was good friends with the parents and had been asked in for coffee, tbh.

Once dc are in secondary school, it’ll be increasingly unlikely that you’ll know the parents of their friends. There’ll be a lot of ‘strangers’ in their life. In a few years time you won’t even know where the party is, and you’ll be relying on texts to keep in touch!

So the 10 year old sent out party invitations to the entire class with no parental involvement? Of course they exist unless the child is home alone like Kevin? 😆 Sorry OP but you say you allow your child to walk alone to school so your logic here doesn’t really add up. There’s more dangers on the street than in a house with the whole class.

I'm overprotective (so I get it) and had overprotective parents. You really need to chill out for the sake of your child. It's not like its going to be an unsupervised party with booze and drugs.

I hate dogs but I'm pretty confident most if not all parents who invite the whole class to their house either shut their dog away, get someone to dogsit away from the house or have an extremely placid dog that won't cause any issues. Noone is letting 30 kids loose on their precious fur baby!

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No dog owner wants their dog being mauled by 30 ten year olds! Unlikely a dog will be at the party.

You can meet the parents when you drop him off and also give them your number in case of emergency.

Then you skip away merrily and enjoy your precious child free hours.

Yes I would defo especially if the kids from their class would be there. I wouldn’t hesitate..

I would just double check that the parents will be staying in the house/ garden, at all times. And that there wouldn’t be alcohol available (and yes, I’ve known it to happen) Apart from that, yes, I’d leave them at a supervised party.

I would have said yes before I became a teacher. Now that I know what goes on in a lot of children’s homes, there’s no chance I’d send my kids out to unknown people.