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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all the snow days, neighborhood kids want to do play dates. One set of siblings tries to play with my kids everyday. One parent works from home. Kids come knocking on our door. They ask to play everyday. We are available but I hate having those kids in our house because they are really disrespectful. Today they smashed a bunch of DS's lego sets. DS is upset. DH is furious.

I know they will come knocking on our door again tomorrow.

How do I turn them away?

I have no real excuse except I don't want them in my house. I don't mind them playing outside.[/quote]

It's amazing to me how incapable so many people are of just saying it like it is in reasonable ways.

Next time they come over walk them back to their house and nicely say to their parent "It would be great if instead of them just coming over to ask, you and I work it out on the phone.  If they want to play, maybe text me or come over yourself to ask, but please stop sending them over because I'm going to say no."

You can finesse that however you like, but seriously, people need to remember that communication is within everyone's power!  You can actually have a conversation with adults involved in this!

Also, when the kids are at your house, do you set limits and tell them the ground rules?  If you don't and you're too scared or feel like you can't before they're someone else's kids, get over it.  It's your house, your rules, end of story.  That's how we do it and that's how I assume it'll be when my kids visit their friends' houses.  Tell them clearly what is acceptable and what is not in terms of behavior and how they treat your stuff.

They are kids, you are the adult, and it's your house.  If you let them run rampant every time, that's fully on you.[/quote]

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