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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you've been having drop off playdates for 3 years, I would be disciplining this child like he was my own.

When he doesn't listen to a well stated rule, he goes home.  Each and every time.

Good god you've been a doormat for years.[/quote]

This.  I would also explain why the play date was cut short.[/quote]

Agree, especially if you are close enough to "love him like your own".  That only extends to a close friend and my nieces/nephews for me, and those friends/siblings would expect me to discipline like my own as well. [/quote]

This. I would also reach to her about it. Tell her YOU are having a hard time getting Larlo to follow house rules and YOU aren’t able to adequately supervise, it conveys the problem without having to demonize her child. Say that the next play date, you need her to stay and help show you how she disciplines him at home. She can let him know that any misbehaving means taking a break from play dates for a little while, and any future play dates, if he doesn’t behave, he goes home immediately. It sounds like the kid is super comfortable with you, but since he isn’t your kid there’s not a lot in the way of consequences.

If she weren’t a close friend, I would just do the whole ‘so busy! Another time’ route. [/quote]

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