Would you be annoyed/offended if your dd/ds went to play at a friends house and had dinner there a lot?

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Dd1's new friend has stayed for dinner the last two day. They have only known each other two days .

This is absolutely fine with me. The girl is a pleasure to have around. Wonderfully polite and helpful and keeps dd1 entertained.

DH thinks I should be careful not to let her stay too often because her mum might get annoyed that she is not eating many meals at their house. Would get annoyed if this was your child? Surely if it was an issue the mum would ask her child to come home for tea?

How old?

9 yrs.

No way would I be annoyed!

The girl's Mum probably hates cooking or is a terrible cook and is grateful that her DD is getting a good meal elsewhere.

Not a problem if no one minds - do you?

No not at all. I like having her here. the last two days with her here have been a breeze compared to usual. Although saying that her appearance has coincided with DH getting a new job which means he is home at dinner time and last night my friend was also here.

My son is an only and I love having his friends over....one appears to have moved in of late (his parents are splitting and he likes to spend time round ours)

I wouldn't be annoyed, my DD is in and out our neighbours house and I have all sorts of children inviting themselves to tea (and very occasionally it works the other way around!).

Is just me or do men seem to want to avoid other children in their home. There's always some issue when my DD has friends over in DH's head.

I just let them get on with it, okay they do squabble but they are entertaining each other and I can get back to Mumsnet!

sorry, but seems a bit odd to me why not take things a bit slower and it would be nice if your daughter went back????? My daughter has been kind someone and now is being taken complete advantage of and in such an insidious way its going to be hard to stop it.