How do you answer this question when the answer is no? There's a 7yo girl down the street who lies a lot and can be pretty pushy, so we don't tend to hang out with her that much. We'll occasionally let her and her 4yo brother come along when we walk to the park, and DS sometimes rides scooters outside with them, but we don't let them come inside to play, and DS didn't put the girl on his birthday invite list.
He's turning 6 next month, so he gets to invite 6 friends and he's had all of them picked out for ages (2 family friends, 3 kids from school, and 1 neighbor -- the one we share a duplex with). But I guess this girl and DS were talking about when their birthdays are and she started asking if she can come to his party. He didn't really answer and they ended up moving on to another subject, but later I heard her say, "Ask your mom if I can come to your birthday party." DS didn't end up asking me, but I want to be prepared with an answer in case she asks me another time. (I'm not interested in suggestions to just invite her -- DS didn't invite her and I'm honoring that, and also I don't want to teach him that if people are pushy enough we just have to do what they say.)
He's turning 6 next month, so he gets to invite 6 friends and he's had all of them picked out for ages (2 family friends, 3 kids from school, and 1 neighbor -- the one we share a duplex with). But I guess this girl and DS were talking about when their birthdays are and she started asking if she can come to his party. He didn't really answer and they ended up moving on to another subject, but later I heard her say, "Ask your mom if I can come to your birthday party." DS didn't end up asking me, but I want to be prepared with an answer in case she asks me another time. (I'm not interested in suggestions to just invite her -- DS didn't invite her and I'm honoring that, and also I don't want to teach him that if people are pushy enough we just have to do what they say.)
