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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I worry less about those people than the ones who have only been hanging out with their parents most of their life. When I got to college you could always tell who the only children were. They asked for single rooms. Couldn't handle roommates. And had more adjustment issues. The kids from larger families did just fine.[/quote]

I lived in a suite freshman year and by the spring, half of my roommates had left. All had siblings. Perhaps generalizations are just that and people find facts to suit their narrative. And roommates suck. My BFF had a single (and 3 siblings!) and it was worlds better. Not sure why random freshman year roommates should be a litmus test for being a well adjusted person (and I have a sibling as well). [/quote]

Then i guess the mom worrying about kids from big families can settle down then.[/quote]

She's not worried about kids from big families.  She's worried about kids whose parents don't think they need friends because their siblings can just be their playmates.  Keep up.[/quote]

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