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[quote=Anonymous]A building wide play date with 15 kids sounds like a competitive Uber-mommy crapfest to me.  I agree that any playdate is really, really hard when you have a child with delays, but these kind of round em up events are just recipes for disaster because the moms don't know each other and the only thing they have to talk about is, as you relate, how many words does each kid have, which expensive and competitive activities are they involved in, and one-upping each other.

OP, rather than looking at this as a glimpse of things he won't achieve, look at this as a kind of raw cultural pastiche being enacted around you.  I myself felt that I had dodged a bullet when DD went to PEP instead of entering the preschool rat race and the WIPPSI (whatever it is called) high stakes testing racket.  I got free pre school, my child benefited immensely, and most kids were caught up and ready in time for Kindergarten.

Roll your eyes, good mommy, take some Tylenol PM, and hang in there.[/quote]

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