preschool playdates

[nowa]

How often did/does your 4 or 5 year old do play dates? Just curious.

[quesyrah]

Never. DS likes to play with his friends at school but then he's had enough of them lol. He's not a fan of socializing

[expectantsteelerfan]

My bff has a ds my dd's age and a younger dd. My dd and her ds are in school together, so I feel like we do something fun after school at least once a week, often more, and sometimes other moms and kids join us, or we also just stay and play after school at the playground there. DD has other school friends that we do 'official' playdates on a non-school day maybe once a month or so?

[Kcthepouchh8r]

At both my kids preschools (and ds's K class) a good chunk of the kids hung out after school for about 45 minutes assuming it's 45+ out. We never go longer than two weeks without a play date at someone's house (or hosting at ours).

[lala]

Rarely. We are outside w/ neighbors a lot, weather providing. Occasionally after school - but she is at preschool until 2:30 3 days a week. She has speech & ballet the other 2 days. There's really not much time for playdates and that is fine with me.

[dizzycooks]

Not often typically, but that may be changing given our new neighbors.

[thecheshirekat]

We don't really do play dates with the kids they only know from preschool, but we still do at least one a week with the moms club, and some of those kids are in preschool with them. I'm hoping to do some on the weekends next year with his little girlfriend because he adores her so much and they're going to different schools .

[soexcited317]

I have close friends with kids very close to my kids ages. My BFF has kiddos about the same age as all three of mine and we try to do at least once per month... we would likely do more but she works part time and lives about 30 ish + minutes away. I also have a neighborhood friend with kiddos similar ages and we see them probably once per week. AS far as other play dates they are pretty infrequent- we've just done a few this year where we invited a friend to play or he's (my oldest just turned five) had a friend invite him. He also went to his first friend birthday party a few weeks ago.

[abs]

During the school year we don't do many playdates. We just don't have time. She's in school from 9-2:30 four days a week and we also have ballet, gymnastics, and soccer. We do the occasional Friday playdate with her best friend who is in another class. During the summer we do play dates 3-4 times a week. It helps that the moms of her best friends have also become my best friends! We are so, so lucky there.

[mamaalysson]

She maybe has one every couple of weeks after school. We do hang out and play on the playground for a bit most days, if the weather cooperates. And most Wednesdays my good friend and her kids stop by for a short play date before dinner.

[Deleted]

We play with our cousins weekly, and friends from church about every 2 weeks. They often see school friends at the park or the local indoor play place, but we havent done play dates per se with school friends yet.

[gastro]

Once a week. But my DS1 goes to a coop so I know all the other parents really well so they will take DS1 home directly from school and I pick up later or I take a kid home...it's heavenly.

[gennyu]

About once a week, usually with a neighbor or a friend from Moms club. Classmate play dates are less frequent since I don't usually have contact info, etc. for the parents.

[lattelady5]

I don't set up play dates usually. DD has 3 neighborhood friends a d I babysit her bff a couple times a week. We do a decent amount of stuff with my friends who also have kids her age and they all play well together.

[cabbagecabbage]

I babysit a kid her age and we regularly play with the neighbors, so lots of time with kids.

Just preschool class kids, I'd say we do a playdate about once a month. I'm the lazy mom who doesn't host or set them up but I accept invitations. I hope being pregnant gives me a pass?

[Deleted]

I just hosted my first playdate last week, and DS is 4! He's a total introvert though and gets exhausted playing with other kids. Usually he ends up watching kids play or wanting to read. I'm having another 4 year old and 2 2-year-olds over this week, and I'll see how it goes. But in general they don't get to play with other kids much.