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LucyP
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Posted: Aug 27 2008 at 2:14pm \| IP Logged

We have a new family who ar renting a house one door down from us. They have a baby exactly our DD's age and a girl 4 months older than our son, and a boy who is 2 years older than our son. In our (my!) excitement at having a family living so close I encouraged DS to be friendly and to ask the children to play, and I have spent some time chatting to the mum and dad. I think they are a muslim family by their names, origninally from africa, but I haven't really asked so I am guessing.

The thing is that the mum doesn't want her children at our house as we have a dog - they stroked the dog today and this afternoon the children "let it out" to DS that they need to be bathed and have their clothes washed after that. So they want DS to play at their house - I got kind of carried away and let him go today, even though I haven't yet been in their house. DH was not happy and so I called DS back in a few minutes with an excuse of him needing to have milk and bath.

Do you let your children play with other children in the otehr family's house? Just their garden? We have some communal area (a passageway really) and the children like to play there too...I am used to letting DS play if I am there to see/hear but I don't want to be overprotective. And he is at the stage where he wants to be playing independently but I can't be sure of what he would say/do or whether he would tell me if there were any issues. The other children do some things he is not allowed to do (scatting cats in the communal area, for example - but if DS is there when they do it he will get in trouble with the owners - we did pass on to the mum and dad about how the neighbour reacts to the scatting.

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Posted: Aug 27 2008 at 2:54pm \| IP Logged

Lucy~
How old is your son?

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