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Paying for other peoples' children on days out

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payingforotherkids · 02/07/2019 19:32

NC for this as it might be outing. We have recently bought annual passes to a well known theme park and alongside these we get tickets for £15 friends and family entry. The entry price is over £50 usually. We had plans to go this weekend and both of my children want to take friends. Now I think its rude to ask parents to pay if you invite their child somewhere but I don't want to have to pay £30 for their friends either. I can afford to, it's the principle of it as with the exception of one of DS's friends we do a lot of outings and pay for them and they are never reciprocated. Also, we bought annual passes to save money!

The day after the children finish school DD is taking a group of 3 friends, they will pay for themselves as they organised it themselves, they just need me to transport them and on site in case of problems so I think this is different and have no qualms expecting them to pay their own way.

Do you pay for other children if you invite them on a day out and AIBU just to say no to this weekend? I work 60 hours a week and quite frankly can't be arsed to supervise an extra two children who aren't my own as well as pay for them!

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LoafofSellotape · 05/07/2019 11:43

AlaskanOilBaron

Apologies! You did a better job of teaching organisation skills than I did clearlyGrin

AlaskanOilBaron · 05/07/2019 11:51

I'm not sure about that Sello, he's a good one but I wouldn't say admin is his strong suit. I guess we can say in the case of Redding, they are highly motivated to do related admin which is less true with say, passport applications?

You've now got me worried that I've been unwittingly freeloading on unknown parental admin.

But to the point at hand, there's certainly no expectation of anything other than everyone pays for themselves.

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