Well ... it is a tough one. I have young kids as well and the daycare friends are also their only friends. Now I have done outings with parents as part of the daycare activities. (Only twice). It worked out well. My families are also very respectful and I like them all a lot. I could see myself keeping them as friends. However while I have business with them I like to keep our relationship as such as much as possible. I have never invited the DCK to my own kids birthday parties but if I were invited ... HUMM ... I think I would still go. I would keep the visit short and keep my distance a bit. You know ... Not get too chatty or friendly and keep it about the kids.

Although I see others point of view if your parents are like my parents I would not see it as a scheme or anything other than what it was meant to be. It does put me in a bad spot but I do not think the parents would have realised it. I run my business with a lot of professionalism but I also put my heart in too it because that's how I chose to do it. So I would be also happy to have been invited and if this outing brought any bad situations then I would also be ready and prepared to deal with the consequences and do what needs to be done.

So my advice is do what YOU feel is BEST and whatever decision you make, prepare yourself to deal with the consequences.