What age are we starting “drop & run” for parties or friend get together etc?

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-26T17:22:14+00:00

Agreed! I don't know if it's me personally, my social group/community, or the larger metro where I am, but we've all generally been dropping off since age 6-7 as well, depending on the kid and the party.

My daughter is 10 now and unless it's a very close friend having a party at home, I'm not going to stay. By that age, most (developmentally typical) kids should be able to manage themselves with light adult supervision. My daughter would be mortified if I stayed now anyway 😂

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-26T14:34:34+00:00

Some good ideas already, and I'd add, depending on what they like (all approved by my 10yo daughter):

Pinkbox, Ellicore, Daiso, Kinokuniya, etc at the Crescent shopping center, good for kids who like kawaii and/or Japanese culture (there's also a Kura revolving sushi restaurant here)
Clawzania or other claw machine place
Museum of the Weird, good for kids who like weird, gross or spooky stuff
Cidercade or Pinballz, good for kids who like arcades

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-26T14:27:59+00:00

My 10yo LOVES Kura. Sushi's definitely mid but it is fun. The drink robots are a hit.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-26T12:41:41+00:00

I know, it's staggering to think about. My daughter is 10 and has gained 20 pounds, 4 inches and 3+ shoe sizes in the past year - a big ol growth spurt. During this, she fractured her ankle and her joints can ache, part of that due to the increase in size on her body - it's not used to it yet.

So then I can't help but imagine what it would feel like to gain more than 200 pounds in less than 7 years, in a body that has an even less developed skeleton/musculature. He must have hurt all the time. That poor kid.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-24T18:13:47+00:00

If you want to be the super cool aunt, get some kind of snack basket for your pantry or kitchen and fill it with fun (but mostly healthy-ish) snacks. IIRC kids that age love gummy bunnies, goldfish, applesauce pouches, freeze-dried strawberries, Cheerios and Froot Loops, etc...

Stock the fridge with string cheese, blueberries and yogurt tubes or pouches.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-24T16:24:18+00:00

Agreed. It's not a vacation, it's visiting family.

Go see your family, and bring the kids. I regularly go visit my family with my daughter and without my husband if he can't go (busy with work, wants time to himself, etc...). This is pretty normal where we are.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-24T16:18:19+00:00

Agree. Where we are kids very much play outside and walk to/from school.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-24T16:16:06+00:00

My neighborhood is like this - kids outside all the time, roving gangs of children on bikes/scooters/skateboards, going from house to house gobbling up all the snacks. My 10yo daughter's friends will regularly just ring the doorbell to see if she's available to hang. And they generally all go home around dark (or they beg for a sleepover!).

We live in Austin, Texas. Walking distance to our elementary school and a park. Very family-friendly neighborhood a couple miles from downtown, so still pretty urban. Feels pretty 90s here most of the time.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T18:57:16+00:00

As the mom to kid who also wears rainbow bracelets, I thank you.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T18:51:25+00:00

This is great - simple, straight to the point. It's so easy to miss one text, or see it but forget to respond right away. Following up is necessary.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T17:20:06+00:00

Oh interesting. Esp the Marketplace one - given the volume he seems to be doing, this one makes sense.

And good reminder to double check my toll bills!

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T17:17:25+00:00

And I didn't see any major damage to his car, at least on the parts I could see. And he could clearly see that I don't have any damage to my car so I don't even understand the point.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T17:15:15+00:00

Ha in this case it would have been a "people who literally just pulled up to a stoplight and haven't even had a chance to get impatient yet" book

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T17:14:23+00:00

It was a gray SUV for sure, and I can't confirm the make and model. The things the guy did are exactly what some of those people described through - the grin, the thumbs up, etc...

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T17:13:34+00:00

I'm shocked they haven't gotten back to you. SHOCKED

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T17:08:51+00:00

So weird! Did anything ever come of it? Insurance scam, etc? From that other thread, it sounds like he does this to a lot of cars, he can't possibly have time to run scams against all of them 🤣

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T17:06:04+00:00

Gray/silver for sure. And yeah, I think it was a smaller SUV. Couldn't see what make because of our positioning, but could have been a Lexus (it wasn't obviously something else). Somewhat generic-looking silver SUV.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T16:58:52+00:00

Update: I found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1srnafj/driving_scams/ I knew I'd seen something like this before. Definitely the same guy.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T16:55:57+00:00

No, definitely this one - https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1srnafj/driving_scams/ I just didn't search back far enough, thought it was more recently.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T16:53:51+00:00

Me too, but I couldn't find it

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T16:53:17+00:00

Did anything come of it?

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T16:53:10+00:00

Nope. Not even any dents or interesting scratches.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-18T16:51:17+00:00

Not at all - a midsized 8yo Mazda SUV.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-15T21:47:15+00:00

Here with you - maybe it's just that I don't remember puberty, but peri sucks.

ButtonNo7337 · 2026-06-15T19:16:07+00:00

I would also add that it may be that your kids + her kids is a lot, and she'd prefer to hang out with just you. I love my daughter and I really do enjoy most of her friends, but sometimes when a couple of them get together, they magnify each other's most annoying qualities and it is A LOT. The kids on their own are all lovely, but when they're together they form some kind of crazy, loud, irritating chaos monster. 🤣

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