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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all have so many excuses. Your house is small and messy or fussy and neat…kids don’t care about that! You have a full time job and other children…so do most people! Typically when you’re friends w someone, sometimes you invite them to do something and sometimes they invite you. If you want your kids to have friends, you have to as their parent teach them how to do it. They invite a friend over, then the friend invites them. Someone said you don’t prioritize 3rd grader play dates…fine, but do you care that you’re not helping your 3rd grader learn how to be a nice friend that others will want to maintain a friendship w?

If you host it doesn’t have to be at your house. But you should at least show some interest in getting together w the other kid. Suggest that they meet up at a playground so you can take your other kids. Show some kind of interest in furthering the relationship instead of just blowing it off because you’re busy. Everyone’s busy. Or your house isn’t ideally suited to hosting…the kids just like playing together and they can do that anywhere.[/quote]

Did you grow up like this? I don’t recall parents bending over backwards carting kids around to play dates all the time.  And I had plenty of friends.  My school friends I saw at school and socialized there, plus the aftercare.  My sports friends I saw at sports.  My neighborhood friends would knock on door and I’d do the same if we were home and bored.  No was having mom scheduled and planned out play dates on the regular.  [/quote]
NP -- not on the regular, but I grew up in the 80's and my mom definitely hosted playdates (mostly sleepovers) a couple times a month and, yes, the expectation was that at some point those would be reciprocated. Not perhaps in the exact number or level, but in some way.  Even in the 80s, kids had other kids over to play....?[/quote]

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