To have told my son he couldn't go home with another boy because his mother has a disability?

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I didn't tell my son that was why he couldn't go, but that is the reason I've said no.

My son came home from school today and said that he has been invited over to his friend's house to play. This boy and my son have been friends since they started school two years ago. He seems a nice enough lad and they get on well. However his mother is blind.

The fact she is blind doesn't bother me, she seems nice enough, but I'll be honest, allowing her to pick my child up from school and walk him home to her house bothers me.

There are just little things such as crossing roads that I am uneasy about, I know that she does it with her own child every day but I am uneasy about letting her do it with mine.

So I have told my son that we are very busy until Christmas and so we'll have to see in the new year, but I am secretly hoping that the invite will be forgotten.

Bibbity - No nothing has changed at all has it :)

Holy crap, this is from 2008 and I remember it like it was last week

I'm pissing my life away on mumsnet

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Fuck sake.

Deeply offensive trolling thread gets to stay so all can read about disability discrimination. Twiggy, whom I assume pointed out the bleeding obvious, and put both both barrels up a disablist's arse, gets deleted.

is it really worth posting on anything other than jam-making threads any more. ( no guarentee there are actual threads about making jam.)

at mn dilemma

oh and weather related threads.....

Well done, bibbity.

I do now have vaguely hysterical giggles at the thought of mn automatically deleting from the thread as it came up and then the 'oh bugger - that proves that we've changed our boundaries of when we delete'
Sorry mn, much as I love you - hoisted by your own petard there.

bibbs :o

I love the fact that even though it's 2008 people are saying MN and trollsi arent what they used to be

i got as far as busy till christmas befoee checking date :o

I suppose its very wrong that I feel an urgent need to be discussing this with whoever else is discussing it on fb? Sadly I don't have much of a fb/mnet interface, so am prob never going to find out what is being said.

I do apologise again, most sincerely , I wanted to link this thread to the one about deletion-mad mumsnet but inadvertently bumped it by having two tabs open.

SORRY EVERYONE .