DS8 is a kind, sporty, outdoorsy boy, loves survival/camping and lego etc. doesn’t seem to have any issues at school with friendship. But recently we’ve hosted a party for him and some friends and a couple of play dates so I’ve had an intensive couple of weeks of spending time with these children. What has amazed me is the their behaviour. Party, they were rude to him, to me said ‘no’ a lot, ‘would you like to play Lego?’ ‘No’ ‘can we put some sunscreen on you before you go and kayak for two hours’, ‘No’ when told to listen to the safety briefing ‘I’m not doing that I know it all already’ the list goes on I had to get quite stern with some of them. The showing off was awful, my cars better than this, blah blah blah, I told them showing off wasn’t necessary and I quite like my car, non of them made an effort for my son during his Birthday party and he’s come away feeling a bit let down by them all. Then today another play date. The child has sulked that he’s not allowed to play on the PS5 the whole time, anything we’ve suggested doing, playpark, football, shooting hoops, playing in the brook at our house, has been a flat out NO, so we carried on and played with my son and his older sisters and we’ve had to REALLY intervene for them to play outside together for half an hour out of the 4hrs he’s been here . My children would never, ever behave like this. Are kids unable to manufacture their own games anymore? Are they all this rude and entitled? When my son goes on rare play dates the parents always gush how lovely and polite he is how he’s been a dream, I can’t do that with any of these kids, I’m not going to lie. Feeling a bit shocked by them all, they’ve all been highly unlikeable but all seem highly popular!