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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I once had a kid come by and ask to play with no parent communication. We said yes and the friend ended up making chocolate chip cookies with us, as that was our plan for the afternoon. I let each kid have 3 warm cookies and milk (the cookies were small). The mom had the audacity to text me later and say she didn't appreciate that I gave her daughter cookies!

LOL.

And yes, I agree that if you send your kid over with no communication, we may end up somewhere besides our house, like going on a walk to have a picnic in the park that's about a 10-minute walk for us. If you're not OK with your kid going to a second location or need them home by a certain time, you'd darn well better communicate and you have no right at all to complain if you don't know where your kid is or they aren't home when you want them to be. [/quote]

I think this is fine, as long as the means of getting to the second destination is the same (or slower) than the means of travel that the kid used to reach your house.  If my kid walked or biked to you unannounced, please don't put her in your car.  Feel free to walk to the nearby park though -- she could get there on her own.[/quote]

How would you be sure that another parent wouldn't take your kid in the car without ever communicating to that effect? If you let your kid roam on their bike and the dad of the house says hey, I'll take the kids with me to McDonald's for lunch you don't really have a leg to stand on if you're mad about that. [/quote]

[b]Again, I really think the parents of younger kids responding just need to take a deep breath.[/b]

I don't need to communicate with the other parents when my 10 and 13 year old are biking around the neighborhood because I communicate with my kids. 
They know when they need to be home and what they are and aren't allowed to do.

If you said you were taking your kids to McDonalds for lunch, they'd know to ask me first.
If you offered to take them to the pool, they'd know to ask me first.
If you and your kids invited them to go to the park a few blocks away, they'd hop on their bike and join you.

As others have said, I am so appreciative we live in a neighborhood where roving packs of tweens on bikes is a normal thing.[/quote]

You can keep repeating the “you’re all parents of young kids and you don’t know what you’re talking about” as many times as you like, but you’ll still be wrong. I’m one of the people disagreeing with you. My oldest is in college, youngest in elementary school.[/quote]

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