to think parents coudl play with their OWN kids?

[MrsPotiphar]

i generally playw ith mine say at a pool.

then some lazy fekcers think by bringing their own kids to the pool/park/wherever that is IT
and that I would want to play with their kids
no i dont LIKE your kids, at all

" well i am a parent of a rough chatty freaky kid ( we once had one called LEttice fgs but it was salcombe) and they NEEd you to breathe"
kind of psot?

Yes unfortunately is often the full of themselves confident children who come over.

I would say 'well we are going in a minute , or having lunch in aminute' and hope they took the hint

I ahve been secretly very happy when ds 2 has made a little skinny friend on the beach and they play togther just the 2 of them

But the parents don't ask. They just leave the child to it. Gah.

Mrs P EXACTLY

ds2 did once sidle up( aged about 3 to a cricket game

did some fielding to ingratiate self
they said" shall we bowl to the little boy"

he whacked it MILES

twas very funny.
then i went over

sweet.

My ds2 is always pleased with himself if he's engaged in some tough trench digging with a like minded soul who works hard and doesn;t talk much

adn they cant bat straightaway
nee dto spend time in teh slips first

I wish I lived near a beach

ds could be trench digging right now

30 mins here

don;t rub it in

What in the howling gale and pissing rain?

(or are you in a micro-climate too?)

I know. Why don't you build a barbed wire enclosure round your small nuclear family and stay in there. Perish the thought that your children minght interact with other children or that other children might interact with them - they might catch something. Nits, dropped aitches, shell suits, fruit shoots........

Miserable buggers the lot of you

good point seeker wellmade.

ceot we have oen too many to be nuclear

It's not a problem of "catching" anything, it's a problem of being expected to look after other people's children while their parents deliberately look the other way and relax without their kids.

oh and the catching thing too though jamais.

Liek in Tesco

I like tag ons, nice to know we're not too scary
reminds me of the community feel of my childhood. I also like it if my dcs can make friends with other people
I hate this keep yourself to yourself attitude we have these days.

Also find it helps ds1s social skills because he knows how to behave with us but needs different social settings to practice in

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god they are always loud chatty kids ime

and then they try to direct the playing, no no this is how we should do it

really? well go tell Mummy then

its like meryl streep in silkwood when we leave a public area

I LIKE the DS finding friends to play with on the beach so I don't have to play with them for hours on end.

But I don't expect other adults (who are not paid to do so) to have to do it instead of me.

EXACTLY mii

I get the ones who explain everything like Magnus Pike

I'm married to someone like that, I don't want to hear it on the beach too

lol at colditz - pied piper of discipline

and at fuck off kiddo MrsP

Here's your line: (stare into distance) "Kiddo, I think someone's calling you, over there" (point)

As kiddo looks away, grab all your children and run.

agree
playing is great
not expecting me to bowl to your kid when you can raise your fat arse OFF the ground is just rude