After School
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Anonymous
| As a parent, do you allow your elementary aged child to host their friends at home after school every day of the week from dismissal to 6-7pm or until their parents start texting/looking for them? What happened to homework? Is it too much or continue being a doormat/free after care? |
Anonymous
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No my kid is either in aftercare or activities, or home alone with us. All of the kids we know are the same. I don't know any elementary age kids who have the freedom to just go to a friend's house until dinner.
It does sound kind of like my childhood, but I thought it was a thing of the past. |
Anonymous
| It depends on the neighborhood and parents. I'd allow it though. |
Anonymous
| Every day from 3:30 to 7 pm? No way. |
Anonymous
| Yes, but only until around 5 or 5:30 and then parents are calling for them to come home for dinner. Very much depends if DS/neighborhood kids is available or has an activity. |
Anonymous
| Tell them to play outside. Be home by dark. |
Anonymous
| What is the issue? If my kid was playing and happy, why wouldn't I be happy about this? Playing at my house, even better, because I get to know their friends |
Anonymous
| Until 7 every day? No way. |
Anonymous
| My kids school doesn’t even give homework until 3rd grade, and nothing punitive happens if it’s not done. And they aren’t free every day after school- they have stuff going on. |
Anonymous
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One of our kids had a friend as such. Would be at our home for hours after school. Lived in neigborhood too.
We’d simply looped that child into our routine. It happens. That child is a now nurse and adores our family as we do them |
Anonymous
No, because I am a well-adjusted adult who sets boundaries and knows how to say NO. How can your desire to be the "cool" parents or the "hang out house" trump your desire to provide a stable routine for your family? |