My 6 year son had a party in the summer. One of the guests' mothers phoned to ask me if I could drive her son to and from the party as she wanted to do lots of housework that afternoon. She was holding a dinner party in the evening. She lives a 15 minute drive from the party location.
As it happened I couldn't offer a lift as our car was already full. Guest's mother sounded pleading and asked if I knew any other parents who could do the pick up drop off. She didnt know any of the other parents so had no numbers to ring.
She has told me on many occasions that she has lots of childcare - lots of supportive family nearby - so I am afraid that the pleading tone fell on deaf ears. I manage to do housework when my 7 year old son is in the house - it is not like having a tiny baby or demanding toddler.
I didn't feel like spending time phoning round on her behalf - actually I felt surprisingly irritated. Firstly as she must have known about hosting the dinner party/my son's birthday for a while so could have planned housework around it and secondly the total time need to do the pick up and drop off would have been an hour.
Had she instead told me she had an urgent appointment that day or a sudden crisis, I would have been more co operative. Housework does not figure as a crisis to me.
When she got to the party, she approached another parent whom she had never met before and bagged a lift back for her son (age 7). I was
I have vowed to cross her off my christmas card list so to speak - am I being harsh?
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tigermoth · 15/09/2006 21:40
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