[SookiStackhouse]

Too much identifying info. Sorry!

This post has been edited by SookiStackhouse: 01/02/2013, 11:35 AM

[CharliMarley]

You have a really hard decision to make and personally, I would not like to be associated with a criminal family, because the police list his associates. "The crows don't fly with the cockatoos".

[Old Grey Mare]

I think the police can probably discern between a friendship between children and a criminal association. I would say let the children maintain their friendship without becoming too involved with the friend's family.

[Escapin]

I'd be dialing down the friendship, just slowly over time. I sure as h*ll wouldn't be suggesting to invite the daughter over.

[flushthetoilet]

I think you are doing the right thing by not encouraging your daughter not to be friends.

In fact I'd go one step further and encourage her to be very, VERY good friends.

I'd also drop around home made cookies on occasion.

[steppy]

Sorry but that saying about lying down with dogs and getting up with fleas is really really a good saying.

[DressageQueen]

My advice would be to try and distance yourselves.
Criminals associate with criminals, who's not to say that N's parents aren't having crooks over to the house while your son it there?
Crooks love drama, and they love to spread it around.

[SookiStackhouse]

I should just clarify. I am in no means worried about being 'associated' with this family. I just feel really weird and uneasy around the dad ... as in, next time I see him or have to talk to him, all I'm going to think about is what he did.

I'm worried I'm going to say the wrong thing ...
I'm worried we'll get on the wrong side of them ...

I clearly have been watching too many Mafia movies, but OMG, if you actually read the whole horrible saga of what happened in this town, you'd be thinking OMG too.

This post has been edited by SookiStackhouse: 01/02/2013, 11:25 AM

[ellebelle]

My DS has friends come over but I'm not really "friends" with the parents. They just drop off / pick up. I think as long as you didn't start going to BBQ's at their place it would be OK.

[Wahwah]

Tough one. If on face value you have found the girl and her mum good people then it might be worth just going with the flow but being careful (and subtle) to not extend the children's friendship to you becoming friends with the family. Kids can change friends over time so they may well grow apart, especially by high school.

In the meantime, encourage your child to develop other good friendships as well, so that the families aren't pulled together because the girls are best mates.

(Just twigged on your username. Be thankful you're not in Bon Temps, things could be worse!)

This post has been edited by Wahwah: 01/02/2013, 11:33 AM