Parents dating children

[Thegroaninggurner]

I often see posts on Facebook of parents saying they are going on a date with their children I find this absolutely cringeworthy does anyone else? To me you go on a date with a man or woman that you see as a partner not a child. Just saw one of daddy saying he's going on a date with his daughter really does make my skin crawl.

It’s rank.

Never seen it but urrgghhh.

Probably comes from saying “it’s a date”, lots of people say that when you mail down a date to do something with someone. Oh just checked dictionary - it can be a social or romantic appointment.

I agree OP, it's weird. But then I'm so old that I find the term 'Play Date' deeply annoying and unnecessary!

Ffs ott a bit here
Play dates
Mate dates
Parent/child dates

Where 2 individuals (or more) get to do something they want to and enjoying it.

Stop sexualising everything!

What a load of shite! People go on breakfast dates and lunch dates with their friends!

I seriously think your weird for even letting this enter your mind.

People cannot do anything these days

So why not just say I'm going out with my daughter or I'm going out with my friends?

Colloquially the word "date" means literally a date as in a day on a calendar agreed to do something - so a date with a friend, a date with a child. Not linked intrinsically with romance.

Exactly this.

It was never linked to anything romantic until recently but lots of people will still say ‘it’s a date’ when arranging a meeting with someone with no romance involved.

I don’t say it but I couldn’t get worked up about it either.

Interesting no one tries to make a ‘play date’ creepy or inappropriate.

I agree

I agree OP, it's weird. But then I'm so old that I find the term 'Play Date' deeply annoying and unnecessary!

Yup, me too.
My kids "came (or went) round to play" , or "come round for tea after school"

I couldn’t get worked up about this. I’ve got friends who’ll say ‘let’s get a coffee date in the diary’ etc. Date doesn’t have to equal romantic date, and language evolves and changes.

One definition of "date" is a "social or romantic engagement or arrangement".
Which is why people might say "it's a date" when they make plans, or the term "play date" comes from.

Someone else's lack of understand around the meaning of a word, or their inherently sexual view of the word, does not mean that the people who use the word "date" as described are wrong.

Do you never say "it's a date" when someone suggests you do something together?

It literally means "we've agreed on that date".

If you think using a certain word when you're taking your child out for a nice mommy/daughter bonding meal is creepy I think you're the issue.

It's one to one time carved out for someone you love, not romancing necessarily

I wouldn't call it a date myself but it is no harm.

It's wonderful adults spending time with their children as they should be however that is exactly what it is spending time with them not dating them.

i just don’t get the angst. A date is a date. Then you attach whatever prefix to it.

lunch date
play date
romantic date
First date
dinner date
cinema date

etc.

It’s just a phrase. I don’t get why so many people on mn have to get so offended about things like this 🙄

This. I took my 14yo on a dinner date last week 🤷🏼‍♀️

I actually messaged my friend yesterday ‘let’s get some dates in the diary for the summer’ and there’s no question I was referring to both play sessions for our kids and childfree coffees etc. I really think it’s no biggie 😄

I’ve always used date to mean one on one time. Me and a friend would have a coffee date, or children might have a play date. It doesn’t feel inherently romantic to me?

Just saw one of daddy saying he's going on a date with his daughter really does make my skin crawl.

Normal for Norfolk...

Am not on facebook but that sounds just weird. But Woody Allen did it for real and Elon Musk's dad with his stepdaugher and have 2 children together which is just sooo wrong and is like dating your daughter as raised them since they were small.

I can't get worked up about this. I plan something with a friend and might say "it's a date". I organise play dates, I set a wedding date. I don't think it inferres romantic undertones.

Say, what?!

Prob something else that has come over from America and great for instagram 🙄
But Easter trees for the record have been around for donkeys, I remember my mum doing them when we were little (we did live overseas though).