DS1's school friend lives round the corner. Within a few mins of being home (and often at weekends) the friend will "knock". Sometimes they go out to play, mostly they play here. That's fine, it's good that he wants to have his friends here, that they want to come and that I know what they're up to. Apart from the noise they're no bother.
But why is it always here? It's not just this friend, there are a couple of others too. DS1 would like to play at their houses too from time to time, but either the friends engineer it so they can't or the mum says they can't.
DS1 has his moments, but I don't think he's a badly behaved child, I certainly get no complaints from school/cubs etc, so why are other parents so reluctant to have him?
Today he came home from school all excited that when X called they were going to his house, but when X arrived, his mum had apparently told him he had till 5:30, but that they couldn't go to his house, which seemed particularly off to me that she was prepared to send her DS round to me, but not to have them at her house. A one off I'd accept that she'd just tidied, had things to do, it just wasn't convienient etc, but it's not a one off. What's going on and does it matter?
They're all yr 6