Parents of Preschoolers  Discussion Forum

Hi,
My daughter is 3yrs old. My next door neighbor' s daughter is also of her age.
My daughter always wants to go to our neighbor' s place to play with their daughter. She does it to such an extent that sometimes i hardly find her at home. More over, the neighbor' s daughter never comes to our place to play with Avani, my daughter.
I have adjusted my work timings with her school' s, so that i could get some free time with her. I do lot of activities like painting, crayons, puzzles, read books any manynore. Also, My husband last night did set up a BIG Thomas train for her.
I really dont know how to make her understand. I tryed talking to her and made her understand, also scolded her...and last night my husband really got frustrated and gave her one spank.
Its not that iam totally against of she visiting our neighbor' s place. Kids usually meet in the Clubhouse in the evening and play.
Its really embarassing of getting my daughter back home from my neighbor' s place...everytime. Also, feeling bad for scolding her so often.
Please advice how to handle this situation.
SG replied. I feel that if u dont want ur daughter to go thr then just lock the doors.U r already trying to provide more toys & play environment to her.U can take her out in evening like park & shopping etc whatever possible.Show her some cartoons like one cartoon a day.
Also thr is one more gud sugestion given by sunny to be friendly with the neighbour if she is a nice person.
One of my neighbours daughter became friendly to me when i didnt had a kidcmg to my place.As she started i slowly got interated with her mother. So kids r like that.
Dont worry too much.She will stop once she will grow up and hv lots of home work Sunny replied. Try being friends with the Mother and Invite them for tea or snacks whenever you hv time that way neighbours daughter willalso come and playing with same age is good