The laws of hospitality guide me. If I invite a kid over, they’re safe and welcome. And if I left out anything delicate or tasty, whatever happens is on me.
Unfortunately I can’t exactly hide my nice white couch or my TV or my ambient lamp away from Mr Sticky Chocolate Fingers now can I
Tell the people with children that you can only hang out in the garage.
My “garage” is a motorbike parking space under the apartment building. Sounds good tbh
You invite kids over? I usually invite friends and some of them happen to have kids. I don’t specifically invite the kids. It’s up to the parents to decide if their kid is well behaved enough no to destroy someone’s apartment. Some environments are not kid-friendly and parents can’t expect the whole world to simply adapt to their needs.
Like I said, hospitality. If my friends are parents, I care about their kids and an invitation implicitly extends to them, because babysitters aren’t cheap.
I just wouldn’t invite a kid over without thinking about how to be a good host. It’s normal to care about your friends’ kids.
Then you’re a better host than I am. I’m not baby-proofing my apartment for a one-off visit. I can move some things around but I’m not choosing a kid-proof furniture when I don’t have kids. Parents need to be aware where they can and can’t take their kids. I they can’t control them and something gets destroyed it’s on them.
As John Locke said, “To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.” I tend to agree with that.
Nah, the laws of sanity guide me, so nobody with kids gets any kind of invitation to my space without the specific disclaimer that children are not welcome. Of course, most of my friends are as adamantly child free as I am, so it hasn’t had to come up much.
