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Originally Posted by TishaBuv
That's too bad. Play dates are also a way for parents to make friends. Do you think it's because all the parents are working full time and too tired? I was lucky enough to be around at home mothers or part time working moms when my kids were young. It sounds like the parents don't have good social skills either :-(
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I think partly its because most of the parents have more than one child. Which means their child has siblings at home to play with.
My daughter was an only child for a long time. She hated coming home and being alone with nobody to play with. Other parents cannot identify or sympathize with this. I even tried talking to one mom about it, and she shrugged it off. She had two children. Parents with more than one child can't even begin to understand how an only child can be lonely, and how there is a need for the parents to get other kids for their only child to play with.
This is important to me, so when my twins enter pre school or a mother's day out program in a couple of years, if I sense the parents are unfriendly, I'll be taking the twins out and putting them somewhere else. Even if I have to do this several times until I find the right chemistry somewhere.