Duh!!!!!!! It's raining!!!!!!

Thats me cheeky all the way through like a stick of rock!!!! Children have been very good today, feel guitly about wanting them to og back to school on Tuesday as they were bored stiff the other day. My cat is also very funny in the rain. I like it when it has stopped raining, you get that lovely fresh smell

Our cat doesn't seem to mind the rain, the smell is lovely just like freshy cut grass

Stick of rock? I love that fresh smell after the rain too. We used to have a cat that was so prizzy. Would tip toe around where it was wet. So weird.

Yes there is that too it, but I didn't really want three wet children coming back into the house today, plus they were quite happy doing there own thing indoors Should have said yes to the neighbours children that they were coming out to play, just to see the looks on there faces..... there's no way there mum would have wanted them playing out in the rain, more hassle, mess rows when they went in soaking wet

Not much ot do outside apart from walk/ ride bikes. The den went last year so there is no where to sit out of the rain. It can be good fun to walk in the rain

Hey , I sometimes go out with my dog and walk in the rain , I just keep a dry towel near the door , and I go out with rainwear. When I get home , I use the towel so my clothes don't dreep water , I go in and change clothes. But still , if it was such a heavy rain , maybe there was nothing to do outdoors. I would also want to see their faces if they were allowed to play outside.

No its not polite, but then the mother isn't polite so I'm used to it

BTW, it's raining here, too, and there are kids out in it...

My children do play out in the rain and I don't mind the mess, but they are all busy doing things in the house and they aren't arguing so don't want ot spoil a good thing. We do take the children for long walks in the rain etc.

Yes they did, and they do play here an awful lot in the house and garden, its very rare that mine go to there house, and its not through lack of trying ot get my children in there house.

Yes free babysitter, thats what I am. Just wait until the summer and I have about 12 children in my garden!!! I'm a mug, but I wasn't allowed lots of pals around in the garden when I was a child so want my children to be different!!

Sorry that your children don't have many children to play with. It was sneaky of her and I have been caught out by her too many times now. I wouldn't mind but its all one way, its ok for me to have all her children in etc, but if I ask back etc, its never the right time so I now do but my foot down now and again.

Hi , Anne , I personally think that if you don't have a problem letting them in , and your children don't mind , then let the kids to play with each other. Think about the best for your kids. If they did all of their homework and are bored , and if they like playing with the kids of your neighbour , let them play in your house and ask them to keep it clean and arranged. I must admit it sounds like a situation where you feel exploited , but , if your kids are happy with that , maybe you can find good things and educational activities to do with the neighbour's kids : you can make them do the homework together , you can ask them how school is. Hey , maybe you can show them how you keep the house clean and fixed :P

Hi there, If the children had been bored then I may have let the other children in, but they were all busy doing things and not arguing so I didn't want to distrub them. I know if my children went and knocked on her door like hers did today then she wouldn't have let them in, regardless of how bored her children may have been. These children come round ours and ask for ice creams, the other day it was fairly hot and my daughter came in and said the little girl wanted the paddling pool out! now it wasn't hot enough for the padding pool out, I said if she wants paddling pool out then she will have ot og and ask her mum to have her pool out! She wouldn't go and ask, but I know her mum would have given her a towel ot go in ours!!!

Stop raining now, sun out for a while but still a bit chilly. Hope you get some rain soon

I don't let my children roam at all, thats one good reason how they get into trouble

Useless talking ot the mother, feel sorry for the children but I wasn't letting them in today, no way not while mine were keeping themselfs busy etc. Children used to coming in and not coming in, so normal.

Sadly it dosen't work like that with her, its all very one sied

The children do like to come into my house, but sometimes I don't want six children in my house, If I wanted six children I would have had six children Glad you feel the same as me, sun is shining now so they may get out a bit later once the jobs are done

Yes turned them away. I'm a bit soft and I do let them in more often than turning them away. She very very very rarely gives me a break, she should have sorted some rainy day activites out for them. It can be fun to play out in the rain, but not today and I didn't want any children in my house today apart from my own children.

Yes they do cope with nature and like being outside in the cold and rain, but just not today, anyway they were all busy doing there own things up stairs and you don't disturb sleeping dogs do you, so left them chilling out on there own, other children had to turn around and go home, bet there mum wasn't very happy with me, but tough

I do allowe the children to play outside in the rain, these children didn't want ot play outside and were sent to be asked to play in our house. I do say yes sometimes but I do get fed up with being fodded off with these children. My children were more than happy doing there own things, and although I did feel sorry for these children and guilty about not letting them come in today I do have to put my children first and since they were more than happy staying in and doing there own thing and not arguing with each other I decided that today it was better to let as they say sleeping dogs lie and just have my children in my house this sunday afternoon. The children did all play out yesterday together, I might add in our garden not the neighbours garden and I do need a break form other people's children once in a while. I mean if I wanted six children then I would have given birth ot six children instead of four children. But three children living at home and the eldest of 23 living away is all I can cope with. Sadly i'm no Mary Poppins, Supernanny or Nanny McFee. Wish I was sometimes

I have no problem with my children playing out in the rain and they do so, we go for long walks in the rain as well. My children were all settled indoors doing things and I didn't want ot upset the balance, the children have been getting a bit bored as they have been off school a long time over Easter, so I was pleased my children had sorted thnings out to od while I was busy and weren't annoying each other. Let sleeping dogs lie I say