are there kids that you won't let your kids play with?
there's a boy that lives in our neighborhood that befriended my boys a couple years ago. at first i was ok with it. i mean, why wouldn't i be. then over time i noticed some questionable behavior including him putting my kids in danger of electric shock. he likes to play away from adults and i found him in my kid's closet with his shirt off one day. that was the end of playing inside. at the beginning of this school year he started school in the intermediate school and my kids are still in elementary. so he decided because of that and because they don't let him control what they do all the time he didn't want to be their friend anymore. but he has a severe hatred for girls and women and my boys are the only boys close to his age in the neighborhood. so he decided to be their friend again. then a few weeks ago we found out that his dad was arrested for pot. i usually don't let the actions of parents cloud my thoughts of a kid but it was just the last turd in a pile of crap. so now i don't let my kids play with him. if we're all outside and the kids are on their bikes and he just happens to be on our street then i'm fine with that. any other time, no. well, he came by today to see if my kids could play and i felt so bad telling him no. he always looks so disapointed. he's an only child and other kids in the neighborhood don't like to play with him. he's rude, mean, and controlling.
are their any kids that you just refuse to let your kids play with?
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thank goodness we're moving, but I would never let my kids play with the kids across the street. It's not that the kids are bad, but I wouldn't want my kids going over to their house. We are constantly hearing shouting and cursing coming from the house, I'm not sure but the kids might be getting beaten, I'm always hearing them crying at the top of their lungs as their parents yell at them. At least a couple times a week, someone leaves in a rage, flipping off and cussing out someone else on their way out, then the person who was cussed spends the next 5 minutes getting calmed down by others as they kick at things in their yard and spout off many curses.
Sorry, those kids may be great, but I don't want my kids exposed to that kind of environment.
Yes, in fact there are 2 boys in my neighborhood who are not welcome at my house or in my house. They both befriended my son (at different times). Found out the hard way about the first boy. He was 2 years older than my son...likes high risk behavior, makes poor choices and loves fire! And someone gave me a heads up about the second boy. A year older than my son... A lying thief, true to form, stole a couple of things from my son's room and even stole my checks that I had laying out. This has all happen in the past year or so AND... my son is 11 yo. They haven't been around in a very loooong time. I have/had NO problem telling them they are not welcome and that my son is not allowed to play with them.
Yes.. one girl from my dds school (11yr old) - she has been very devious - framed my dd, gotten kids against my dd. I am afraid what she will do next. She is jealousy of my dd being best friends with the "it" girl - and would like my kid out of the picture. It scares me a bit and I will not let them get together outside of school. Not the my dd would want to anyway.
Yes I would tell my kids not to. However I haven't really done it. I have told my children I don't like some of their friends and explained why. I watch and closely because I will put an end to it if I have too.
There are these girls up the street I don't like to let my dd (11) play with, but since my dd is an only child(much like the boy in your post), dd, doesn't have many options. Now, you see, my dd has adhd (and god only knows what processing disorder-i know there's something going on there), she's a relatively good kid, she's usually very kind, caring and empathetic/sympathetic, but others kinda view her as weird. Yes, sometimes she IS bossy, but not usually. In fact, she's pretty much the doormat for these girls. If they want to play sports, my dd will suggest playing a game the 3 of them made up together. They say, nah, we want to play soccer(or whatever). My dd will usually end up playing whatever THEY want because she's deathly afraid of "losing" them as "friends". I don't view these girls as friends, but moreso as playmates. Rude ones at that!
I discourage my boys from playing with trouble makers , and I definetly would not let them hangout with older kids . Once, i let my sons friends come by and play b-ball with him and one of the kids threw an orange at a passing car the moment I walked into the house . Both my son and I were so upset , he never asked to have friends over again .
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- brandi185
on Apr. 13, 2012 at 5:34 PM