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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Recent immigrant families literally [/b]do not know the concept of "play date". I am not being rude either.  These are people who are coming to the US for the first time and know very little English.  "Play date" is a made up middle class american culture thing.  They simply aren't going to know it right off the bat.

Also, put yourself in that parent's shoes.  Do you really want to send your kid off with some stranger who you can't even understand the language they are speaking or communicate with them?  You have no idea if the person is saying "hey I am going to take your kid to my house and treat them badly " or if they are saying "hey I am going to take your kid to my house and treat them royally" This goes for parties as well. I mean really think about that. Would you be comfortable doing that if your kid was 4, 5, 6? I know no upper middle class white parents who would have been.

Some lower income parents are younger. Much younger.  It's intimidating to be a twenty something mom and attend a bday party with moms who are 35+.   Think back to when you were 22 or 23.  How would you have felt walking into a room of 35+ yr old women in a very nice house? Can you honestly say you would have been comfortable?[/quote]

Really?  All immigrants?

I just say because you are lumping large populations of people into one pot.  Are you talking about Chinese?  French?  Mexican?  [/quote]

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