Am getting a bit irritated by another mum from our school. They moved into our area from a couple of miles away, and ever since she has been bugging me/DS1 for get-togethers/lifts and her kids keep 'dropping in'.
DS1 (1) is friendly-ish with one of the boys (in same class) but the problem is that his younger brother always arrives too, and neither DS1 or DS2 get on with/like him at all .
We're about to break up from school, and already this woman is bombarding me with e-mails with dates when she 'thought it would be nice' if DS1 could go to play/go with them to the swimming pool etc.
So far I've tried to politely decline with 'oh we're a bit busy/we have people over/need to visit relatives etc' but she just keeps coming back with more dates!
Thing is, I just don't really like their parenting style - they're much less concerned about safety than we are. They always have too many kids in the car/ don't use rear seatbelts. And recently one of my friends was a bit upset to discover that when her son was invited to play after school he actually ended up walking home to their house, over a mile, and across two busy roads - not something he was used to (and was only aged 9 at the time).
I just feel that my softly softly approach won't work, and I might need to be a bit more blunt?
DH says he thinks she is targeting us because she works part-time and she is looking for childcare over the summer (He may have a point...)