Your friends come to visit...with their kids

I have a relative though not a friend really who whenever she comes bring her children with her, she has four, three boys and one girl, the elder is six years old, so the others are all small kids, they make my house a mess when they come they do not sit at their places but will always be walking and touching things around the house.

Yeah. It gets annoying cuz they might break some stuff i really value. When friends bring their kids around and the kids are too noisy and runs around my house i raise my voice saying i'm angry already. This usually works and my friends understand that i'm just joking. :)

yeah i will say something to the kids in a heart beat not to do thing i wouldnt permit my own kids to do.

I like to set ground rules for the people who enter my humble abode. 1. No drooling, unless we're watching college football, and the cheerleaders are on screen. 2. Don't throw things, unless I threw something at you first(in which case, take a throw pillow and blast me with it if you feel that would be warranted.) 3. No kids under the age of 18 years old are allowed inside the house. I mean, if they come over for a cookout, and kids need to use the bathroom, I'm willing to waive that last rule in the name of weak bladders everywhere. I haven't lost any friends because of their parenting styles, or my reaction to said styles. I think they do a bang up job as parents. Though, rule three has been ignored on more than one occasion. I had to bite my tongue and look the other way whenever it happens.

I'll admit that I've never had an experience like this one. Most of my friends don't have kids yet and the ones that do only have babies, so it's really hard for the babies to get into too much trouble. :) And the only older kids that end up coming over and getting into trouble are family and we don't have any problem yelling at them ourselves, but that's family and it doesn't really apply to friend's kids or anything. I think, though, that if I were in this situation I would definitely talk to the parents about it. Try not to be rude or anything that might be taken offensively, but it's your house and you don't want YOUR kids doing that (if you have kids?) or if you don't have kids, it's still your house and you really don't want kids behaving like monkeys in it. Let them know that it's OK for the kids to play, as long as they do so in a way that's not quite so disruptive and destructive (what if they had managed to break a board on your bed or something?). Plus, mention that it's easy for them to get hurt and you really don't want that either. Just remember that you don't have to be rude about it, but assert yourself. It's your house and you should be able to voice your concerns, especially since they're not exactly doing their part as your guests.