I'm feeling guilty today. I never get around to arranging play dates for my girls. Oh, I have the best of intentions but they never materialize somehow. My poor kids have had no playdates this school year. I guess I get away with it because they play with each other quite happily. Chelsea hasn't really connected with anyone at preschool. Maddie has made lots of connections at Kindergarten and one mom has tried to have her over, but it's just never worked out with schedules, so I think she's given up on us. A couple of the neighbourhood girls have been over but that's been more of a spontaneous thing. Come to think of it, that's always how it was when I was growing up. My mom never got on the phone with another mom to arrange a "play date" That's a new thing. Maybe that's why I'm uncomfortable with it. To get on the phone to someone and ask for their kid to come over just feels uncomfortable to me. Maybe I have to get over it for my kids' sake though. I always feel pressure too. Maybe our house isn't fun enough....maybe my kids won't share and it will all end in tears....maybe their little friend won't want to come back..... so silly, I know...it's my own insecurity I'm transferring to my kids.
So, I'm going to get on the phone soon....I'll let you know how it goes!
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I so know what you are talking about! I hated that too and still do! Alyssa has got a friend now and I'm friends with her mom and that makes it easy. I don't feel like we are making playdates; it's more like I take her daughter home one week and she take mine the next. There are still some other girls that it requires a little more organization than that, but I usually do the spontaneous thing on the school grounds. It is a strange world that we operate in... not like when we were kids!
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