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[quote=Anonymous]I'm in the education field, so if a child has anxiety and still wants a parent to come (as someone upthread said) then I'd still have the playdate at my house half the time and the parent can come, no problem.  Why? Because it's better for the anxious child to learn to go out of the house for playdates, etc.  So  I'd chat with the parent for a bit and then I'd go do my thing and the parent could read her kindle, phone, pull out some work and do it in the diningroom, go to her car and listen to the radio and zone out, etc.  We'd prearrange this - as in, it's good for your son to be at my house, and you can come, but I really need to get some stuff done so I'm going to ask you to bring your own work, book, phone and I'm going to ditch you in the diningroom for most of it. K?

And if the parent didn't want to do that, then I'd say ok, then we'll just do all the playdates at your house because I'm not going to spend 3 hours chatting with every parent of 8 year olds in my house (unless the parent is a good friend, of course, but assuming this is just a random parent of a random child in my child's class)

But, no, I don't expect an 8 yr old to come towing a parent who stays and expects to be chatted with the whole time!  [/quote]

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