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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you "scheduling d*mn play dates"? If your kids are so amazing, aren't they responsible enough to knock on a few doors around the neighborhood and invite people over, or ride their bike to the playground and make new friends there?

Wait, I thought kids were supposed to be bored--but you're social engineering play dates? Which is it?[/quote]

No one wants your kid knocking on their door inviting themselves in so you get free babysitting.  [/quote]

That's not called free babysitting. That used to be normal childhood, kids in the neighborhood just playing with each other.[/quote]

In my townhouse neighborhood there are no kids to play with.  People usually move out once their babies are toddlers.

I have found aftercare at school to be a partial substitute for a neighborhood.  Although it is semi-structured and does create some of the same "waiting to be told what to do" mentality.

Kids do spend too much time on video games BUT...

As a result of lots of time on Roblox video games, my children spend way more time with their first cousins than I ever did (they are a gaming squad), they have made nice, middle-class striver kid friends in NYC and Canada, my younger son got interested in a foreign language and is now teaching it to himself by Duolingo, and my younger son also had another friend group to turn to when his middle school friendships went sour.  Overall, it's been an OK tradeoff.[/quote]

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