What age do start drop off play dates?

[Anonymous]

DD is 3.5 - a new friend (mom) requested a drop off play date. Mine won’t separate unless it’s a family member or our closest friends. When do most kids start drop off play dates?

[Anonymous]

Oh, no, not at 3.5 unless it’s a super close friend OF MINE and my kid knew them really well (like “auntie x” territory).
True drop off play dates? 1st grade

[Anonymous]

We do it with older kids in preschool. 4 1/2 to 5. With my older son we started in kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

It depends on your child and how well you know the other family.

[Anonymous]

Pre School but only for a family we knew really well. Kindergarten for most other play dates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do it with older kids in preschool. 4 1/2 to 5. With my older son we started in kindergarten.

Exactly this. Oldest child was second half of kindergarten. Middle child last year of preschool with families we knew for 2-3 years. Now they are 8 and 10. Been drop off for a while.

[Anonymous]

Kindergarten. But mostly because I was friends with the other moms at our co-op preschool

[Anonymous]

For us in kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pre School but only for a family we knew really well. Kindergarten for most other play dates.

+1

[Anonymous]

My daughter plays with our two neighbor kids all the time and we probably did it at 3.5.
She’s my third. Now she’s 4. If someone else invited her to a drop off play date I probably would. If they invited her to a not drop off play date she probably wouldn’t be able to go. I don’t have time for that. Also she goes to preschool part time and my parents watch her part time while I work and my mom actually takes her to play with a neighbor friend the same age by their house too.
She plays with the above mentioned neighbor kids almost daily and then she is also friends with younger siblings of her older brothers friends so she sees those kids on a regular basis too. No real play dates so to speak but lots of playing with kids, particularly as a pack during little league games lately.

[Anonymous]

My oldest is in K and drop off playdates started in K for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: DD is 3.5 - a new friend (mom) requested a drop off play date. Mine won’t separate unless it’s a family member or our closest friends. When do most kids start drop off play dates?

That's just weird. How well do you even know her if she's a new friend??

I'd think it's just because she wants you to reciprocate and dump her kid off on you at a future date.

[Anonymous]

Op here - from preschool. And to be clear - she wanted her kid to be dropped off.

[Anonymous]

4 with good friends from preschool

[Anonymous]

Between 4 and 5 with friends we knew really well. My next nearly 4 year old is unlikely to be ready then, he’s a clinger. But we shall see.