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[quote=Anonymous]Stop rolling your eyes- I absolutely am not making that up.  He told me this a few years back at my daughter's first birthday party...much to the horror of the other mothers within ear shot.

And, the whole point of the book "Protecting the Gift" is to trust your gut.  I'm not an idiot asking for background checks but I do think it would be nice to have at least met casually the grown-ups who'll be in a house my kids are sleeping in - so I can go by my gut instincts.

Also, I'm sick the parents who don't really do any supervision when other people's young kids are at their house.  I totally get, and see with my own kids, that having friends over can make it easier on the parents because your child has someone else to play with BUT too many parents take this as an excuse to get their own stuff done and don't pay attention at all to what the group of kids are doing.  Of course, you shouldn't hover or intrude on their play, but listening at the door every once and a while or asking the visiting kids how they're doing occasionally should be standard.  I'm all for kids having space but when I was a child I remember many situations where something bad would happen (like intense bullying or breaking something valuable) and the kid whose house it was would beg (and pressure us) not to tell his/her clueless parents.  [/quote]

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