Having friends with fussy kids over for dinner

BitterAndTwisted

That sounds like a really lovely meal and I echo the comment about you having the patience of a saint. As the host I wouldn't have sat by and let those kids run riot and teach my own kids really appallingly bad manners and I wouldn't have been offering any pudding at all let alone finding acceptable alternatives: I'd have jumped in and let them know that in my house we don't stand for that kind of nonsense and sod what their parents thought about it. I feel sorry for those kids and I'm quite cross with the parents for allowing that behaviur: I'd have been mortified. No sensible person would invite those kids twice, would they and that's a terrible pity.

When I looked after one of my sister's two kids aged about 3 and 6 when they went abroad for a week there was a litany of complaints from the kids when they got back. How I laughed. But those two didn't run me ragged, they sat at the table and ate what I served and ate it properly or else. I didn't serve many puddings at the beginning of the week but did a lot towards the end.

snowleopard61

MidLifeCrisis wrote: »

The 6 yr old said 'don't like dips' and took handfuls of breadsticks that I'm not even sure if she ate or not....
OMG I would be SO ashamed if my kids behaved the way they did in someone else's house. First up was "ughh broccoli" ...- ,

I think you did sterling stuff and frankly they sound absolutely appalling. Fussiness is one thing, and it's difficult to know how to make your child be otherwise if they're just made like that - you can hardly ram the food down their throats! - but they were so rude. I would have been mortified if my children had spoken to a hostess like that when they were toddlers, let alone at 6 and 9.

Taadaa

Well done MidLifeCrisis.

They sound like adorable children...

MidLifeCrisis_3

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Awful? Sounded like quite a fun evening to me.
Not ideal behaviour, I agree, but not awful. Sounded like everyone enjoyed themselves.

We did have a good evening, bad manners aside. Most importantly I achieved my aim of making something that everyone could enjoy and not go hungry. It's only today I realised that I forgot to do the partbake baguettes I'd bought tho!

I'm certainly no saint, but would never let my children behave like that in our house let alone someone else's. Our children were spoken to about their friend's behaviour and their own in relation to it the next day. As our youngest put it "William was bad he was squaring, he used a square word" - ahh bless:A.

MLC

JimmyTheWig

I love it, MLC. No longer a "four letter word" but a "four cornered word"!