Category Archives: Bad Play Date Etiquette

Hurting other people’s houses

By Jodi Cohen | Published: November 28, 2010
It’s bad enough when you’re little one destroys furniture in your own house, but even worse when it happens in someone else’s house. We were enjoying a lovely thanksgiving celebration – great wine, food, conversation, until…. My four year old son decided to write his name in pen on our host’s leather couch. As you [...]
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Play Date Etiquette

By Jodi Cohen | Published: September 12, 2010
Play dates can be a little like dating and just as full of surprises. The similarities between the guy who is late or blows you off completely resonate. A reader recently shared an even more intriguing play date dilemma – that of the parent who invites her child to your house. “Lately, I’ve had quite [...]
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Playdate Ettiquette

By Jodi Cohen | Published: April 24, 2010
You’re on a play date at a park and your child picks up a stick and starts swinging it around. You are about to remind him that if he’s going to play with sticks, he needs to make sure that he is far away from other children so no one gets hurt, when the other [...]
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Stood up for a play date?

By Jodi Cohen | Published: December 22, 2009
It’s holiday time and scheduling play dates can prove a sanity saver. So long as the other parent doesn’t flake on you. Our friend Carol had organized a play date with one of her daughter’s favorite preschool classmates. She thought she did everything right. She and the other mother exchanged emails a week in advance [...]
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