Inviting a child who lives in shelter over for playdate?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you haven't met the mom or dad, I wouldn't do it. Shelter or not, you have to meet the parents. Besides, I would want my child to play/associate with some one who can reciprocate. You surely won't be sending your child to a shelter for a play date. You can ask the teacher and I'm sure she wouldn't suggest it. As a parent, who spent so much time researching schools for the the "right environment", you surely can't feel that environment is what you want for child. It may sound terrible, but I wouldn't welcome that. Besides, the school year is almost over and if this friend is staying in a shelter, he or she most likely won't be returning next year anyway.

This post is disgusting!

+1000

I confess. This post is disgustingly true. I personally wouldn't do it either. I hate to admit it. But no. I need to meet the parents of any child that would want to play outside of school. And if it's practically May and you haven't met or seen them anywhere - field trips, PTA , school programs, pick ups then I would let it go. The poster is probably right about the child moving anyway.

Interesting. This post is also from the same IP address as the first quoted message. No wonder the poster believes it is true.

thank you for letting us know Jeff. frankly, I thought the "right environment" post was a troll. the substantial sock puppeting to me confirms that the poster was just a troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, just as a follow up, I've written a note which I gave the teacher at drop off this morning to put in the child's backpack. It says (more or less) - I am X's mom, and X talks about Y so much everyday. I'd love to either have Y over to our place or meet up at a playground one day. You can call me at XXXX or email me at XXXX if you are interested.

I will wait a week or so to see if there is a response. And, for what it is worth, the teacher didn't say anything when I provided the note.

OP-

I'm the poster with the similar situation. In our case, I thought we had something set-up -- it was confirmed by the other child's parent and then it feel through, twice. Unfortunately I didn't use much caution with my son and ended up disappointing him both times. I should have learned my lesson the first time, but now I know better. Fortunately we were able to arrange a playdate at playground and, as I motioned previously, both boys had fun. It took several weeks but the other parent expressed interest early on and it was worth every effort on my part.

[Anonymous]

Earlier I was going to post, "please don't feed the troll!" Guess we don't have to feed the troll if she feeds herself.