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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ultimately, OP, these people are not your friends. They're using you. Do you want to have friends that are using you?

Your kids have friends, yes.  How much time should they be spending with their BFFs? What's reasonable?

Also, let your kids develop new relationships with new kids.[/quote]

People are different. They offer each other different things. Life is not 50-50. (And BTW people who keep track of how much they give vs how much they get are not friends, either.)

Some day OP may need some help from her neighbors. Maybe one of the kids is sick or needs to go to the hospital, her DH is out of town, and the nannies are booked. I imagine asking the neighbor for help and them responding, "Of course! You've had our kids over so many times!! Bring them over here for the night. Anything."[/quote]

OP already knows that her kids are welcome at the neighbor's house anytime, and that they'll be unsupervised, every time. That's why she PAY FOR HER OWN NANNY to accompany her children over there.[/quote]

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