i can't beleive this

Wow I remember that discussion. Can't believe she is trying to get them back when obviously she can't even watch them when she has them. Now I don't know her so maybe she is a good parent. But hoping for your sake that she doesn't just pawn her daughter off on you all the time.

Amen to that. I used to have to go through the very same thing when I lived in an apartment complex. The neighbors would let their kids run around from aprtment to apartment and if you had kids, they would always come over uninvited. That drove me crazy too. I have a child but one is enough to take care of and watch and the parents didn't even know where their kids were. I got to where I wouldn't answer the door for the children. that is awful but enough is enough.

I hope so too. I can't believe she'd honestly do something like that. Maybe that's how she lost custody of her children in the first place. A lot of times they will send out someone to check her out and ask around about her behavior I would tell them about her neglectfulness and how she just brushed it off that the little girl just walked in to play!

it was noticed that you has been facing problems with them in your home as they came to your house to play uninvited. Say to her that I have to do my household work and at that time as i am busy don't send her children to your home. May be it works. Any way some times it happend like that they come to your home. May be a little time it was not bothering you. Any way neighbours.

Wow, if that was her one day of week visitation and she sent her daughter over to your place to play, thats pretty scary. Especially since your a perfect stranger. I hope things work out and she doesn't drive you nuts!

Ack, how old is the child? She sounds young. I am in agreement on this one. It isn't that hard to introduce yourself. It isn't that hard to pick up the phone, either, and ask if it is covenient. There is one boy that one of my sons goes to school with. They have known each other a long time but they aren't really friends. They don't have much in common. He gets sent over here a lot, and there have to be a number of refusals to play before he stops, and then we get a lull, and then it all starts up again. I feel sorry for him.

poppoppop i know how you feel. I have this set of parents who go next door to my house to see them and they are always and for ever sending their two boys over to my house to play with out asking me first. Now i have 4 kids of my own. It's not just that they send their kids over to my house to play with out asking me but these two boys a what me and my husband call book boys. the oldest is 7 and told my husband that he had to put training wheels on one of the bikes at my house just so that he could ride with my kids because he can't ride a bike with out them. My boys are 6 and 5. On top of that the boys are always telling my kids what to do and are very very rude. Last Saturday day for instints (which was may 26th) i had a friend over with her five kids. Now my kids and her kids get a long great and we where having a bbq. Well i stepped outside to see what all of the kids where doing and there was this 7 year old in my back yard that was never invited. Needless to say i was a little peeved and ranted in my house while i was making salad. Well next thing i know my oldest son decides because he was having a soda that this kid wanted one that he was going to give one to him. Well i cut him off at the draw on that one. then the kid next door walks right in my house with out knocking or asking permision to tell me that he got kicked while on my swing set on accident by my 5 year old son. Then he started trouble with my friends kids. Mind you they where here all day and all 8 kids where playing along just great with out this little trouble maker comming over. Then when the kid found out what we where having for dinner he decided that he was inviting himself to our meal and i said NO that it wasn't for him to be invited. Well now mind you the kid went crying over to his mother who don't watch them when they come over here and while we were eatting and two of the boys where done eatting this kid next door figured that he was going to come back over to my yard and start playing while everyone else was still playing. I sent him back over until everyone else was done eatting. A sincable thing to do right? Well this has started a lot of trouble now with the next door naibors because now they are telling my kids that they can't ride their bike on their side walk which tickes me off because the side walk is not their properte. So hunny i know just how you feel. I'm not a baby sitter either so every time those kids come over i get a little madder each time and i don't dear yell at their kids while they are in my yard because they are not my kids and their parents don't watch them. I just want to scream at their mother to watch her kids instead of parting when she's at her mother's house.

I do remember your earlier post about this woman. You just need to wait and see what happens. As my mom would say don't borrow trouble. If she does send her kids down to you, just tell her that you are not her babysitter. Don't let her get away with it or she will keep doing it. But for now just wait and see. I have never had anyone stick me with their kids without asking me first. I can only immagine how not cool with that I would be.

Most of the parents at the apartment complex I live at send their kids out and don't monitor them at all. A few weeks ago, my DCLH ended up yelling at some because they wouldn't stop hitting our window with a foot ball (and those windows aren't that strong). We had to call the office, and that's only kept them from hitting the window, not the door or wall. Too many parents subscribe to the idea that the "village" will raise their children because they don't want to. My parents met at least the children that we wanted to play with in our neighborhood and would call the parents before we could go over. And if we weren't invited we didn't go, end of story. What ever happened to manners and ettiquette?

I don't know where are you from ,mybe your new neighbour is not right in your opinion ,but I don't think so , we are more and more stranger between with our neighbours ,why that happened ? I was borned in a country where people are more friendly than the urban I lives now ,mybe they too busy to be friendly to eachoher

I know dealing with other people's children can get on your very last nerve sometimes, but these are children we are talking about. Maybe you should have a talk with her mother maybe that is her way of meeting new people, maybe she needs someone to talk to - everyone does now and then. I am one of those people who's children come over all the time I have a 8 yr. old boy and a 7 yr. old girl and the more the marrier I say. I do beleive the woman was wrong for not coming to meet you 1st but just keep in mind that children don't always know better then to just show up, cause maybe she was not yet taught that. With your feeling like a babysitter let her mother know that she can not be at your house all the time, never know this person may become your best friend or even your worst enemy. All I'm saying is think about how you react 1st being as this is dealing with children. I hope I have not over stepped my bounderies here but really it is not the childs fault here.