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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you are talking about going inside homes. We live on a kid culdesac basically and NO ONE is going inside homes. These are kids playing outside in front and back yards with each other. I don't consider any of it free childcare and my older 2 don't need anyone to watch them. I provide enough toys to play with to help entertain and my neighbors do too (chalk, stomp rockets, scooters, water guns, basketballs, soccer balls, tag games).

I often do host playdates where kids come inside, but those are arranged in advance. I don't mind kids coming inside, but these kids are really dirty, sweaty and stinky from playing outside. They need to stay outside. lol[/quote]

Just keeping them outside makes it much easier! The girls my girls ran around with the most moved in across the street in May 2020. No one was going into each other’s houses or eating snacks together. The girls were all about 6 to 8 at the time. Both that summer and the summer after there were not a lot of organized camps, so having friends to play with was great. I did not feel like their girls were imposing on us when they rang the doorbell. It got my girls out of the house. I wished my son (then 10), had a neighborhood friend.

Summer 2021 and 2022, there was a pack of about 8 girls running around together. By that point, they’d play (with permission) as a group in each other’s backyards, but front yard, sidewalk and bikes were more common. They still weren’t going in each others houses.

Just establish with your kid that when someone knocks on the door, they’re expected to play outside. Send them home if it’s not a good time for your kids. [/quote]

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