Would you let your dc be driven by another parent, to their house , for a play date?

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AIBU not to want this?

think other parent thinks i am weird because i said I would pick dc up after school and follow them in car to their house, and drop off.

well it was funny that mrs PP drank the wine , but wouldn't have been funny if the Mother driving had drunk the wine, would it? .

I would never drink more than half a glass with food if driving and would certainly not drink if I was transporting a friend and their DC.

I think Mspp should have tackled her friend directly.

You're not being unreasonable to have the worry, it's perfectly natural and normal for some of us, especially for a pfb - on the other hand, I think you are going to have to get over it and ignore it. You don't say how far your child's going to be driven though - 2 miles? 15 miles through country lanes? I would have exactly the same worry - I don't drive btw which I think may be why I'm less trusting - but I don't see any way past it other than ignoring it and letting a child go anyway.

By the way there's no need to assume that any time a parent has an anxiety and even acts on it that the child will automatically find out about it. There is a middle ground where you acknowledge that you have a fear and you mustn't express it to your child but may sometimes still act on it without the child knowing what's driving your choices.

Cadeaide, yes but it's not the most important thing here.

YABU

Whenever we have had playdates from school only one parent collects the children from school - the parent of the house they are going to. I do check they have enough car seats adnd if they don't I would leave one for them to use.

I would find it very strange for a parent to not trust me to drive their child back to my house to play.