stay at home moms

I don't think it's a bad thing, my daughter doesn't have play dates either. Every so often we get together with her cousins (there are heaps of them) so i think that's ok, when she's a little older i will try day care once a week or so & then when she's 4 she'll be in Kindergarten so i think she'll be ok. I don't think there's anything wrong with not being like everyone else, i'm sure your child is perfectly fine without constant socialisation but ocassionally wouldn't hurt. I worry about my daughter sometimes, mainly because i saw the way another young child treated her not long ago & didn't like it. I also didn't like the fact that mother didn't pay any attention to the nasty things her daughter was doing :(

I never went on playdates as a kid either. We just went outside and played with neighbor kids or went to the park. Where we live now, it is not always good weather to play outside and we have no kids where we live or park. So we joined a playgroup through our church. We were really good at going every week until two of my kids started school. The timing got to be real bad. We would get there and stay 15 minutes then it would be time to go pick one up from school. It sucked. BUt the overall benefit was that the kids made friends and were more comfortable at church on Sundays with kids they finally knew. It is nice to have a change of scenery once in a while. NEw people new toys kind of things. They really liked it. Maybe we should start going again.

Your fare from a bad mom. I didnt take my firt child to play dates either and he is just fine. I have 4 kids total and after I had my 2nd child I found out about a program for children ages 0-3yrs and they had weekly play groups. I didnt always go to the playgroups and that was fine. Your child/ren will turn out fine in the end just like you did. Dont worry about it.

I hardly ever take my daughter on play dates. And even when I do, it's because I just happen to have friends with kids and we're getting together anyways, so we just let our kids play together. But that's about the extent of it. I sometimes feel bad too, but it doesn't make us bad mothers.

I've never taken my children on playdates either. They closest thing I ever had to a "playdate" was when the little boy across the road and I would get together and play, I thought that was just "having a friend over". I guess I understand the concept of a "playdate" but it just seems a little too stuffy to me. I don't want my kids to get be so scheduled that playing has to be marked on the calendar.

I am sure you are not a bad mother! I never went on a play date in my life and I grew up OK. lol. When my kids were young, I don't remember play dates. They did go to preschool so maybe that counted but I didn't arrange time for them to play with kids their age or whatever. They played together and I played with them a LOT. I know many moms do the play date thing and my sister, whose kids are 8 and 9 sometimes does, but I honestly do not think it makes a HUGE difference in how a child develops. If you make sure they get out socially and are around people and maybe play with other kids at the park or wherever, once they get to preschool or kindergarten, they will have all the social stimulation they need. Of course, I am old and my kids are 21 and 16 but they are well adjusted, smart, respectful, witty (Heh, I am their mom after all so I can brag) boys who seem to have no social deficits because they didn't have regular play dates as little kids. I am sure you are a great mom!