15 Commandment Playdates

by Parents Magazine

THOU SHALT NOT

●Forget to ask: “Are there guns? Unsupervised Internet? Adults you don’t know in the house?”

●Stay to long. (An hour is plenty for the littlest ones.)

●Leave without helping to clean up.

●Bring a sick child.

●Schedule playdates at naptime.

●Supervise the kids any less rigorously than you would your own

●Leave out toys that everbody can’t play with. (Put away things that are difficult to share.)

●Let things be one-sided – always doing just the inviting or the accepting.

●Bring a sibling or a friend to tag along.

●Neglect to have your children say, “Thanks for having me/”

●Feed snacks without asking about food allergies and parental preferences.

●Drop off a child who isn’t 100% potty-trained.