I really don't want to nag, or stop her having friends over, but this is becoming a bit of a bugbear of mine and I'm getting fed up with a house full Every night
She wants her friends over all the time. Last week we had at least one friend here every night after school.
Saturday afternoon a couple of her friends came over (they hogged the living room with endless Disney movies), then she wanted them to stay over and they didn't end up going until I'd finally had enough and gave them all a lift home late afternoon on Sunday.
Both nights so far this week we've had a friend home with her after school.
They all have really late curfews (8/9pm) so they're still here at dinner time so it all gets awkward with feeding them/eating in front of them. Sometimes it's a bit difficult, like today, I sorted dinner before I went to work this morning so there's really not enough to stretch it to 5.
I've spoken to DD tonight about it and told her I don't mind friends here after school a couple of times a week, but not every night and that they need to leave at 6. I don't mind feeding them occasionally, but she needs to ask first, at least the day before and I'm absolutely sick of sleepovers every weekend but every couple of weeks or so we'll talk about
My parents would never really let me have friends over, and I don't want to be like that. I've always been quite easy going about it but I've now had enough. It's someone else's turn
I'm happy to compromise with her, but I'm sick of them being here all the bloody time, my house feels like a teenage doss house most nights and it's pissing me off.
Is that really unreasonable? Or is it part and parcel of being a parent to a teenager and I need to suck it up?