For those of you who have read the first part I will skip to today (if you have no idea what I am talking about it is in the sidebar).
So about five days have passed since I called Mrs. J and so far they have not come over at all. Yesterday when we came home from shopping I saw a bunch of kids playing in the cul-de-sac and let my kids join them until dinner. The J’s were there playing with another neighbor’s kids, using all their stuff, and I am almost glad to say not listening one bit to M and M’s mother (well, at least its not just me).
Tonight we saw them again and they were invited to play over here for a little bit. Well, they said that they were not allowed to play at our house without asking their mother for permission first.
This bothers me for two reasons. One, I am now the bad guy. The issue isn’t that her kids are disobedient and disrespectful of adults its that I had a problem – even though I made it perfectly clear that they were more than welcome here if they wanted to do what they were asked. Two, since they have to ask permission now that means that they didn’t have to ask this whole time. They were just wandering across the street to go into someone else’s house without their mother even knowing where they were or how long they planned on being gone.
I guess its all for the best anyway – my kids are young and impressionable so I suppose its just as well that we will be on more casual terms with the J family from now on.
