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Dorisdaisy · 27/01/2007 14:32

My dd plays sometimes plays with a little girl who lives near us and is in the class below her in school. She is a lovely girl but she always comes round to us, and I usually feed her and generally entertain. Whenever my daughter goes round to hers to play they are just going out or the girl says her dad tries to talk like my dd (who has a husky tone) but can't. I have taken their dd for a bike rides, to feed the horses and for short walks up to 1 1/2 hrs. She happily plays with all our outside toys and all of this is beginning to hack me off!
What would you do????

I do feel a little unkind by saying were going out too!

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Saturn74 · 27/01/2007 15:01

My children have friends whose parents reciprocate in having them round, giving them tea etc, and parents who don't.
Some people just don't seem to understand the process, and some just don't care, and are happy for their children to be off elsewhere!
It's a bit sad for the girl if you were to stop her playing with your DD altogther (and I know you weren't suggesting this), but if the situation hacks you off, perhaps you should not offer meals to this little girl, and stop taking her out places.
Your could tell your DD that she is welcome round to play in the garden, but has to go home if you have other things to do.
I didn't quite understand
'or the girl says her dad tries to talk like my dd (who has a husky tone) but can't'
so can't comment on that.
I don't think you're being unkind by curtailing how much you do for this little girl - it sounds like you have been very welcoming and generous.

Dorisdaisy · 27/01/2007 16:24

The other little girls father is an a bit of an actor and I think he tries to mimic the way my dd speaks. I get the impression that this makes his dd feel uncomfortable.
But your right there does need to be some ground rules. TBH their child has been allowed out to play on her own since she was 3 so I guess in a way there is bound to be some differences in expectation.

What rules do you have for having friends around to play??

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Saturn74 · 27/01/2007 18:40

at this man mimicking your daughter.
I take it 'actor' is a euphemism!
When my children were little, our garden tended to be played in by quite a few of the children in our street. I would rather have had children in our garden then let my children play out unsupervised when they were tiny.
There was a woman who let her 3 year old play out with her older siblings, and I thought that was very worrying.

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mousiemousie · 27/01/2007 18:52

It is true that some people reciprocate hospitality and others don't. If your dd likes having her friend round and it suits you too then fine. When it doesn't suit just say no it's not convenient.

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