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.