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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hang on. We’re a multi-child family, but the kids need play dates. Apparently kids generally need at a minimum 1-2 play dates a week of a minimum of 2 hrs each. https://blog.lowellschool.org/blog/ups-and-downs-of-friendship-in-elementary-school. The kids don’t need their mothers at the play dates, nor should they be mean to siblings, but they don’t not need friends.[/quote]

+1.  OP -- all these comments from people saying that multi-kid families don't care about playdates absolutely does NOT track with my IRL experience now that my kids are in elementary.  This multi-kid family does playdates (and sees value in them) regularly.  My kids love having their friends over.  [/quote]

Seriously, I'm wondering how some of these PP's kids are going to survive in college and adulthood when they have to socialize with people other than their siblings![/quote]

Nobody's saying don't socialize at all! But kids get social interaction at recess and aftercare, through their various activities, when they are invited on playdates, and --gasp-- when a sibling has a friend over. And with their cousins, and family friends. So it's enough already. The question is: do I motivate to host a playdate for a kid who wants it to be 1:1, when I could just as easily schedule a playdate with a sibling pair or a kid who plays well with all? Hmmmm...[/quote]

Reread the thread. That is not the tone of many of the replies. The replies were "my kids have their own built-in playmates and don't need extra socialization with playdates" and "we don't have time to coordinate logistics for playdates because we're too busy with all of our kids." Not everyone, but that was the tone in much of the thread. Of course nobody wants a kid in the house that's going to be exclusive and cause drama, but the thread turned into playdates vs. no playdates, not just the who and how of playdates.[/quote]

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