To want to take 6 year old on playdate without mum?

[hatebeingmummy]

For those with Reception/Yr 1 - do you go along on playdates?

The reason I ask is that evry 2 or 3 weeks I invite on of DD's friends to do things with us at the weekend, for example; soft play centres, events at my gym etc. The reason is that I struggle with "playing" with her and after a few weeks of doing this with DD I need a little break. I want to take the children to the soft play and let them run off while I read a book and have a quiet coffee.
But whenever I do this, the mum always comes along! So, I have to spend a couple of hours in chit chat with someone I wouldn't necessarily choose to have coffee with, while the kids play.
Or even worse, they want to join in with the children's play and then I feel bad if i don't join in too, so my little escape turns in to a session in the ball pit and sliding down slides which I absolutely can't stand..

So, AIBU? Do people just not like to entrust their children to others? Maybe they enjoy the outing too and that's why they want to come... What do you do?

Sorry also Sarah if you don't feel comfortable don't do it, or say you'll go to.

I think alot of parents start parties too early when the kids can't emotionally cope with them because especially with firstborns parents want to do something and there is a novelty element. Sadly by the time kids are old enough to appreciate and want parties the parents have stopped because they wore themselves out when the kids were young.