I hate having friends’ kids over

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re a pill, OP.

Jesus, yes, the more OP posts, the worse it gets! Send me out with the feral children. Think I'd prefer "banging on the piano" and "stuffing my face with snacks" and, horrors, "touching walls" with the hellions, rather than the exciting polite conversation OP has planned for us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honey - you need to remove the stick from your behind. If you invite a family over, all of them are your guests, not just the parents. That means being hospitable to the littles as well. If you are serving cocktails and caviar for the grownups and ignoring the littles and dinner time, don't be surprised if they are hungry. You cannot be "kitchen closed" to them.

Please, don't call me "honey", I'm not at your Honey Boo Boo level.

It may come as a surprise for you, but when you invited over to someone's house for dinner, you are expected to eat what is offered to you at the table, not go through their kitchen. Kitchen is not open for your littles to rummage through either. You are not at home.

Sure. As long as you factor in kid friendly things as part of meal. Whether you consider them official guests or not…

+1

OP wants to serve food only to the grownups and thinks the kids will be fine sitting in a corner with no activities or ability to move for 3+ hours while she gets hammered talking about how she misses going clubbing and sleeping around with random men

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honey - you need to remove the stick from your behind. If you invite a family over, all of them are your guests, not just the parents. That means being hospitable to the littles as well. If you are serving cocktails and caviar for the grownups and ignoring the littles and dinner time, don't be surprised if they are hungry. You cannot be "kitchen closed" to them.

Please, don't call me "honey", I'm not at your Honey Boo Boo level.

It may come as a surprise for you, but when you invited over to someone's house for dinner, you are expected to eat what is offered to you at the table, not go through their kitchen. Kitchen is not open for your littles to rummage through either. You are not at home.

Sure. As long as you factor in kid friendly things as part of meal. Whether you consider them official guests or not…

+1

OP wants to serve food only to the grownups and thinks the kids will be fine sitting in a corner with no activities or ability to move for 3+ hours while she gets hammered talking about how she misses going clubbing and sleeping around with random men

Maybe that’s true, but if I take my kids somewhere where I’m not 100% sure there will be enough entertainment then I bring my own. Books for older kids, coloring or other small toys for younger kids. You can’t just let your kids behave badly and then blame everyone else for not entertaining them enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honey - you need to remove the stick from your behind. If you invite a family over, all of them are your guests, not just the parents. That means being hospitable to the littles as well. If you are serving cocktails and caviar for the grownups and ignoring the littles and dinner time, don't be surprised if they are hungry. You cannot be "kitchen closed" to them.

Please, don't call me "honey", I'm not at your Honey Boo Boo level.

It may come as a surprise for you, but when you invited over to someone's house for dinner, you are expected to eat what is offered to you at the table, not go through their kitchen. Kitchen is not open for your littles to rummage through either. You are not at home.

Sure. As long as you factor in kid friendly things as part of meal. Whether you consider them official guests or not…

+1

OP wants to serve food only to the grownups and thinks the kids will be fine sitting in a corner with no activities or ability to move for 3+ hours while she gets hammered talking about how she misses going clubbing and sleeping around with random men

Maybe that’s true, but if I take my kids somewhere where I’m not 100% sure there will be enough entertainment then I bring my own. Books for older kids, coloring or other small toys for younger kids. You can’t just let your kids behave badly and then blame everyone else for not entertaining them enough.

Yes but two coloring books for younger kids isn't going to keep them busy for 3 hours which is what OP is expecting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most parents have kids like this, IMO, OP. Host outside only or in a park.

No they don't.

+1 My kid would never.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

+1

OP wants to serve food only to the grownups and thinks the kids will be fine sitting in a corner with no activities or ability to move for 3+ hours while she gets hammered talking about how she misses going clubbing and sleeping around with random men

Are you nuts? What makes you think the kids were not served food?

If you kids don't know how to entertain themselves for a couple of hours and require a dedicated adult to entertain them at different place you go, maybe you are a bad parent?

[Anonymous]

My kids are well-behaved, but they won't just sit at the table listening to adults talk for hours. They will get bored and start to act out. This is why most people will put on a movie for the kids in the basement or fill up a wading pool in the backyard or let them play video games. Can you do something like that?