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[quote=Anonymous]It depends on the kid.

My kids (ages 9 and 7) have some friends who they play really well with and those friends can stay for hours/all day if it's a weekend or summer break. It's pretty open and flexible and I know the parents well enough and we're all honest w/ each other too that if for some reason the playdate needs to end early or we want to extend the play date a little longer, we can just text each other and arrange that.

Then they have some friends where it's 1.5-2 hrs because that's all I can take of having that particular kid over. My son has a close friend like this. He loves this friend but the friend has ADHD and can get wild and if we let the playdate go longer than 2 hrs things start to go south.

If they've never had a particular kid over before, I'll generally invite the kid for 2 hrs mid afternoon and see how it goes. If it goes well, then next time I'll invite them for a longer period of time. If it doesn't go so well, we'll either not invite that kid back or invite them for shorter periods of time.

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