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Do they REALLY have to have friends?


coasterqueen wrote: I am way past annoyed. tongue.gif I will be nice and say...there is an older couple who moved across the road in dh's old house a couple of years ago. Well, then her DD and grandkids moved in with them because the grandkid burned down the house with a candle. dry.gif NEways.....the kid DRIVES me batty. He's a good kid - I tend to forget that - but he just annoys the crap out of me. wacko.gif Maybe it's because he's a boy. happy.gif Who knows.

Some days I wish Kylie didn't have to have friends or playdates, etc. That is SO terrible of me to say, I know. blush.gif blush.gif

redchief replied: rolling_smile.gif rolling_smile.gif
I know it's not funny, but I can't help it because we've BTDT!

PrairieMom replied: OH I am sooooo with you. I am such a control freak and i have a hard time with Ben having friends since I have little say in the matter. rolleyes.gif
Remember me venting about my across the street neighbors that life their kid over my fence to come play? They are at it again this year. growl.gif

coasterqueen replied:
Yeah, I do remember. happy.gif

Well we thought we "dealt" with the biggest problem with this kid. He used to show up at like 7:30 am on the weekends to play. I do NOT enjoy someone coming over before I'm even out of pj's, showered, etc. So Ryan sent him home with a note that his mother is to call us to ask if he can come over and play - not just send him over. WELL, so they we didn't see the kid for awhile and now he's back to just coming over unannounced. growl.gif We are convinced that there are many times his mother doesn't even know that he's at our house and not at his. dry.gif

The boy's dog is another annoyance of mine. mad.gif The family keeps trying to convince me that the dog is a nice dog but when it charges and runs as fast as it can when it sees my kids or cat in the yard - um, nope don't like the dog. Thankfully DH was around when the dogs done that. growl.gif

I'm convinced my problem with the boy is he's a boy. tongue.gif I have two girls, so I'm not used to boys and the difference in play. blush.gif

Maddie&EthansMom replied: OH YEAH!!!! I'm so with you on this one Karen! My kids have just discovered that we have neighbors. laugh.gif I'm glad I held it off this long, but I really really really don't like this kid that they want to play with all the time. And it's not a boy. wink.gif Her mother lets her and her 2 year old brother run all over the place and I'm sorry but my kids are NOT allowed to do that. She was over here the other day ringing the doorbell continuously for at least 5 mins. I didn't answer it b/c my kids were in school and I was afraid I wouldn't be so nice.

Kaitlin'smom replied: awww man, I hope I dont go though this, we just had some people move in on our street with younger kinds and now that the weather is nice she wants to play with them any chance she can. I dont mind, yet its kinda nice for her to have kids to play with, and they seem like really well behaved nice boys. I am watching now as I type this. I guess I am gonna have to look into more things for them to playwith.

sorry ladies I hope things get better for you

msoulz replied:
I am with you Karen - if you think you are awful, well, here's worse - I just don't like most other kids, probably due to the control freak in me too. There are a few I have gotten to know well enough to be comfortable with them, but most I am not. DH has to do most play dates.

So THAT's awful!! sad.gif

MommyToAshley replied: yikes... burned down the house?! Ok, I'd be a bit leery too.

Ashley is the neighborhood social butterfly. She knows everyone on the street, old and young. I really like the neighbor kids, at least the ones that are close to Ashley in age. One of them just moved, and Ashley has been sad about it... but not too sad that it keeps her from playing with the other kids. laugh.gif

luvmykids replied: I'm with ya laugh.gif I was so excited when two kids moved in across the road but I'm totally over it rolling_smile.gif Especially since the mom has "issues" and just wants them out of her hair as much as possible. Even their live in nanny calls and asks if she can send them over growl.gif

Sam & Abby's Mom replied: ahhhhhhh, so glad my oldest is only 3 !!!!!!!!! laugh.gif

gr33n3y3z replied: wait until they get older your in for one heck of a shock emlaugh.gif

mom21kid2dogs replied: We live in a neighboorhood full of girls (8 in O's age range) with only a few boys. Most all of them are pretty well behaved, luckily for us, since we seem to be the house they all gather at. I love summer, though! Outside they all go! wavey.gif The next door neighbors 6yoa is the only one I have to send home routinely. Other than that, we've been lucky!

coasterqueen replied: I'm glad I'm not alone. tongue.gif

What's worse is Kylie is always asking to go over to his house and we absolutely refuse. At first it was because we hadn't seen the inside of their house. We met the mom, she seemed nice - had a hard life, but we were trying to look past that. The more we saw of this kid the more we realized the mother "appears" to not care or watch over her child very much. I think he has NO supervision, unfortunately and so we will NOT let Kylie go over there. We've been dodging the issue with her, but I guess we are going to have to face it sooner or later. rolleyes.gif

~Roo'sMama~ replied:
The same thing just happened to us last fall - except our neighbor kids discovered us. rolleyes.gif And the weird thing is they're so much older than my kids - the girl is 6, and her brothers are 8 and 9. Now whenever we're outside they come over and play in the sandbox with Andrew or want to push Andrew or each other around in his little tykes van. Dh put a stop to the neighbor kids riding in the LT van though because they were going to break it. wacko.gif I'm dreading school letting out because right now if I take my kids outside in the morning or early afternoon I don't have to worry about it. The kids aren't bad, they're just kind of exhausting. tongue.gif

mckayleesmom replied: I love when my kids have other kids to play with....I even don't mind of they come over to play..


The thing that drives me insane is when one of them follows me around the whole time they are hear asking me questions......some questions that have pretty common sense answers..... laugh.gif I already have 5 bazillion questions to answer from my own kids during the day....I don't need more. laugh.gif

A&A'smommy replied: I understand it was like that in my old neighborhood but now I have good neighbors and they have kids that I LOVE. I had one in dance and she was my sweetheart and then the other one was on my tball team last year so I consider myself lucky!!


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