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[quote=Anonymous]While I am grateful my kids have friends, I don’t set up a lot of play dates.  I am happy to host on occasion but find the logistics of picking up a kid eats up a lot of time on the weekends and I don’t like kids leaving school with one another as it feels exclusionary.  Not to mention, I like the time we have as a family after school for snacks, homework, dinner prep etc., and my kids each have a practice they do once a week.  I have 3 kids so they hang out together and I am sure that colors my view too.  Also, my kids have to walk the dog, set the table and in general need some time to reboot after school.  They do have kids they play with on our street who go to a mix of schools (including my kid’s) and that is great because they can run out for 30 minutes if they end up with downtime but in general I don’t do school play dates (or video games, lol) on weekdays once my kids start full day school (was different when they were in half day nursery).  My littlest has a best friend that lives farther away and we will do play dates but probably not more every couple of weeks.  For the most part, I am trying to make my kids’ schedules work in our family’s schedule and don’t have a ton of time to organize play dates.

I wouldn’t take it personally.  I am sure there are others out there who feel like I do. [/quote]

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