Quote Originally Posted by MonkeyPrincess View Post
I haven't encountered that as a daycare provider, but as a mom. There have been times where i have been outside with my kids, and two particular siblings from the neighbourhood will come and play. Nice kids (4 and 7), nice parents but not usually outside supervising the kids. It's ok if they play over but i always have to remind them to ask their mom if they can play over, asking if their mom knows they are here, etc. Sometimes the mom doesn't even know, they just come over without telling her. My son (almost 7) knows that when i have the daycare kids here, he can't have anyone over to play because i can only have a set amount of kids, so we reserve playdates for outside of daycare time.
I also had this problem with our neighbour's son, who would always come over here to play but my kids couldn't go over to his house for some reason. So much so that when my family came over they would ask where our neighbour was if he wasn't here. When I asked his mom to give me a reference when I was opening my daycare, she said that she really didn't know me. We weren't super close but we would walk the kids to school together and would talk occasionally. Not to mention that her son was here ALOT!!