To think its a bit bloody off to send your kid to play at someone elses house armed with poster paints and crafty bloody sponges

[TurkeyLurkey]

Dd had friend to play after school (both ages 7) with the idea that they bog off and play involving minimum input from me.

Lo and behold her mate produces a bag of pots of poster paints and sponges and asks if they can do painting. wtf! Sodding paint and wet items everywhere. I hate crafty stuff like this at the best of times but couldn't very well say no since she'd bought them with her.

If my daughter asked to take paints to a mates house I'd think about the poor bloody parent and say no.

AIBU? Who here would be chuffed with this, honestly ?

Precisely Tellytubby - are you me?

God Floam. I remember getting that sodding stuff stuck to my hands -how the hell do you get it off.

Midnight express -all you need to know is if any of your kids ever get a pot to bypass actually playing with it and chuck the pot striaght in the bin. Will save you a whole load of grief.

This sounds like the sort of thing my DD would do.

(She always has some kind of craft material on her person.)