Originally Posted by amandasgramma
What a wonderful GIFT they all gave you!!!!!! It could be the opposite -- they could say they don't want to be at your house!
Perhaps it would have been a wonderful gift to their parents for you to insist they go home. They are teens but you are the adult, therefore can see it would be more important they be with their family than yours. If they had no family, doubtful, then feel free to pat yourself on the back for being so welcoming. Don't get me wrong I also had numerous kids that thought I was the coolest but I didn't feel a need to be thought of that way. I had one ask to call me Mom, I told him no that he had a Mom. I would never want my kids to call someone else Mom. I always thought it was part of my job as my kids Mom to care about their friends, but my kids were and are my priority. I would never want to come between someone else's kids and their parents.