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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a family that we invited over repeatedly. The wife always said she wasn’t a good cook. She had a son form a previous relationship who was grown up and it appears that he did the family cooking. However, while I didn’t expect to be invited over for dinner, a simple coffee invite would have shown us that they enjoyed our company. Also, on many occasions, I took their daughter on play dates and paid for activities like skytag, bowling. I was never even offered back the money I spent for their daughter. After awhile, I began to feel used. I stopped the invitations as well as the play dates that involved me spending money. At one point, I got contacted from these friends and sensed that they were soliciting an invite. I really didn’t these were really friends. I was disappointed and hurt. Even, when they did accept our dinner invitations, they would come over and make excuses that they hadn’t had time to stop to get a bottle of wine. To be clear, we never even alluded that we wanted them to bring anything. It’s simply the excuses that greatly bothered me because it all revealed to be very hollow.[/quote]

Please, stop inviting our kids to stuff if you don't want to pay for their activities. My kids get invited by other families every damn weekend, and it's often to some expensive activity. We hate it. We prefer to spend time with our kids on the weekend, and so are actually annoyed by the many invites -- especially sleepover invites -- our kids get. When my husband and I were younger, we spent more time at home and with family, and we value family time. Plus, why do you keep taking other people's kids out on expensive outings? We don't share the 'kids need a paid service to entertain them' mentality around these wealthy suburbs; we think it's much *better* in fact, if the kids can learn to just play board games or chat or go on a walk or a bike ride. And, to whoever is going to say 'then tell your kids not to go' - this is much harder said than done. We have no reasonable basis on which to 'prohibit' them for accepting invitations from their friends. So, if you don't like taking your kids' friends on expensive outings, just stop doing it. It's on you, PP.[/quote]

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