Umm... wtf? What's a few more kids, right?

[SunnyD]

/blog moment... if you don't like it, tough.

Doorbell range a little while ago. It was the neighbor's girls asking if they could come over and play. The little one said, "My mom said go over to the neighbor's house to play and don't come back until dinner time."

Wait, wut? Just wait till I decide that I need a few moments of "me time" and send my FIVE kids over with those same instructions. MUAHAHAHAHA!

 

[lxskllr]

Aren't you a little old to be playing with little girls?

 

[blackangst1]

Project X. Just a few close friends.

 

[Perknose]

Tell them you're "on a list." Explain it was all a big misunderstanding, and that even your parole officer agrees it was, but that they can't come in.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Although the mother obviously has parenting issues, I don't see anything wrong with the general idea of one group of kids noting another group of kids at another house and wanting to visit. Happened in my childhood neighborhood plenty, even if it was generally the undesirable lower classes that initiated it.

 

[rudeguy]

meh...happened every day growing up.


Back then I was good at torturing my mom. These days I torture my bosses...

 

[amdhunter]

pics?

 

[Leros]

It could be worse. You could live in a neighborhood where parents are afraid to let their kids outside.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It could be worse. You could live in a neighborhood where parents are afraid to let their kids outside.

Nothing wrong with that, provided the parents are helicopter parents that have coddled their children into absolute submission.

 

[clamum]

Maybe the parents want to bump uglies?

 

[Nintendesert]

The real question is why are your kids indoors to begin with? FREE RANGE THEM!!

 

[JEDI]

/blog moment... if you don't like it, tough.

Doorbell range a little while ago. It was the neighbor's girls asking if they could come over and play. The little one said, "My mom said go over to the neighbor's house to play and don't come back until dinner time."

Wait, wut? Just wait till I decide that I need a few moments of "me time" and send my FIVE kids over with those same instructions. MUAHAHAHAHA!

wtf parenting skills?

how rude of the mom to burden you w/her kids w/o talking to you about it first.

now if her kids just asked if your kids can come out and play, thats one thing.
but it doesnt seem like thats the situation?

 

[TridenT]

The real question is why are your kids indoors to begin with? FREE RANGE THEM!!

OP better also be grass feeding his kids.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Kids never lie :/

Well not until they're 12

 

[Krazy4Real]

lol

 

[CPA]

Although the mother obviously has parenting issues, I don't see anything wrong with the general idea of one group of kids noting another group of kids at another house and wanting to visit. Happened in my childhood neighborhood plenty, even if it was generally the undesirable lower classes that initiated it.

Getting the kids out to the neighbors is good parenting. SunnyD needs to get his parenting skills up to par.

 

[edro]

It's like the neighborhood cat lady. What's 1 more when she already has 63.

 

[highland145]

I used to send my kid to play with the neighbors. Then DSS got involved.

 

[Charlie98]

'Free range?!?' That's funny... We have a free range girl that lives across the street. The woman divorced her husband to take up with the dishwasher at the restaurant where she worked, and ever since it's been a revolving door of different people in and out of the house. As a result, the girl (who is probably 10-11 by now) wanders the neighborhood looking for something to do. Sadly, we fully expect, someday, she will disappear or show up in the movies, if you see what I mean. Very sad.

As far as kids showing up at your house, I would have sent the kids home with a note to their mother (so the kids wouldn't catch wind of it) saying something like "I'm not your babysitter" or, better, an invoice for 3 hours of babysitting.

 

[BUTCH1]

pics?

Huh? OP said these were kids, why would you need/want to see pics of a 7 year old girl??.

 

[ViviTheMage]

So how was the play date, have you retaliated with sending the circus over unannounced? (no disrespect, there was 5 kids in my family, all a year apart and I considered us a circus!)

 

[rivan]

Shrug. About the only thing I see wrong with this is the lack of a call, if you truly are bothered by it.

There are 4 houses in our 'hood where - on the weekends - kids from the other 3 will congregate for hours, often without notice. All of the parents are fine with it and will tell the kids to go home if it's not good timing.

 

[SunnyD]

To be fair, the neighbor's kids did ring the doorbell and ASK if they could come over and play with our kids first. Then it was a matter of "Kids say the darnedest things" once permission was granted.

It's not a big deal though, their two girls are good kids. If they weren't we wouldn't be willing to watch them for a couple hours after school when they get off the bus until one of their parents gets home from work on those odd-scheduled overlapping work days of theirs.

Besides, it tends to keep MY kids out of our hair for a while too.

 

[Scarpozzi]

To be fair, the neighbor's kids did ring the doorbell and ASK if they could come over and play with our kids first. Then it was a matter of "Kids say the darnedest things" once permission was granted.

It's not a big deal though, their two girls are good kids. If they weren't we wouldn't be willing to watch them for a couple hours after school when they get off the bus until one of their parents gets home from work on those odd-scheduled overlapping work days of theirs.

Besides, it tends to keep MY kids out of our hair for a while too.

Sounds like a win/win situation and helps all of their social skills develop. I understand though that when they show up unannounced it can be a little sketchy...

 

[waggy]

To be fair, the neighbor's kids did ring the doorbell and ASK if they could come over and play with our kids first. Then it was a matter of "Kids say the darnedest things" once permission was granted.

It's not a big deal though, their two girls are good kids. If they weren't we wouldn't be willing to watch them for a couple hours after school when they get off the bus until one of their parents gets home from work on those odd-scheduled overlapping work days of theirs.

Besides, it tends to keep MY kids out of our hair for a while too.

I love it when some kids come over. there are a few that i prefer not to come over...

my daughter has 2 friends who are very nice and well behaved. i love it when they are over. it keeps them out of my hair! also my daughter is 10 and her friends are 11 they are old enough to get snacks and lunch for everyone. They also keep a eye on her brother (6) and his friends.

Every weekend i either have extra kids or minus some. this weekend my daughter spent the whole weekend with friends. My son went to a classmates house.