What are your kids like when your friends visit?

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My son is 5 and starts bouncing off the walls when we have our friends with no kids over. We (the adults) cannot hold anything resembling a conversation because of it. He just wants our guests to play, and sometimes they do, but nobody wants to spend the whole visit doing so.

Do anyone else's kids get like this? What do you do? We often end up having to put the TV on for him in another room for a while so we can actually interact. I don't like it but not sure what else to do.

Our dc are much easier when we have friends over who also have dc. When we have friends with no dc round we find we have to entertain our own more than we do if we're at home alone with them!

No advice I'm afraid except to keep reiterating that it's rude to interrupt and try to have time when you're playing or talking with them and time when you're talking as adults.

Thanks, it's good to know I'm not alone! DS is extremely persistent and can't seem to occupy himself if the adults want to chat for a bit. Maybe I should make it clearer to him next time that we're going to chat for however long, then we can see if anyone wants to play.

I think having activities planned for him is probs needed, that he can do on his own. Like drawing, crafts or legi. I dont see a problem with a bit of TV in this circumstance.

Also a little are warning before hand, but making it sound fun like "mummy and daddy are having friends over so you know what that means, you playing with legs! Or the special crayons to do a drawing for Daddy"

Ye DS age 4 can be a bit like this. Excitable etc. Depends on the friends to be honest, if they are ones who he knows are likely to play with them he'll be pretty keen to get them to play!