It took less than two weeks before both older and younger one has started to make friends and inviting their classmates for a playdate at our home.

It’s raining outside and you are itching to get out of the house with the kids before you all go mad. These 10 playdate ideas will save you, read now!

Our daughter’s closest friends are the babies she met cooling her heels in daycare. She actually has had stable, long-lasting friendships longer than she has had language to communicate with these friends.

Now that there are babysitter apps, finding a suitable sitter is as easy as Tinder. But then this perfect sitter never calls back because she’s busy working for 3,000 other mothers.

Ever wonder if airlines seat all families with little kids in the same section of planes so we are the only ones who have to listen to each other’s children rant, rave and lose it?

Canada and I paid a babysitter so we could go to an Escape Room for a fellow dad’s birthday celebration.

So, you have a few play-dates under your belt and feel like a play-date pro. Maybe you even pride yourself on having the coolest play-date house because you have 2 super chill dogs, a cat who could care less and a turtle.

Growing up in the 1970s, also known as the Middle Ages for Children, us kids were instructed after breakfast to ‘Just go play outside’ with whatever kids were wandering our neighborhood until the street lights came on.