Please tell me about your worst playdate...

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I've just suffered the playdate from hell with my lovely friend and her usually lovely but today somewhat demonic DS (3). He is in a major tantrum stage - I have never, ever seen anything like it. I mean never.

I sense that she was unhappy with my reaction (in my house a tantrum never gets you a cookie, and I don't care if you missed a nap), and I think we all feel slightly traumatized, not least my DS.

Can you soothe me with your tales of playdate disasters? Where the parents remained on good terms afterwards?

What was your reaction? When I'm at friends' houses or they're at mine, and someone's child is being difficult, we all do our best to support each other as much as possible and not judge. If my friend wants to give her tantrumming son a cookie whilst at my house then that's her choice. She's the parent, not me, and probably she just wants to diffuse the situation as quickly as possible given she's not in her own house. Everyone is just doing their best!

We don’t need to all join with tales of how our children are brilliant and other terrible children have come to our house.

I presumed from the title this thread was going to be about the OP’s child behaving badly on a playdate...

That’s what I had presumed as well.