Play date etiquette

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If you have a play date at your house and the parents collect their child from you, do you invite them in?

YABU - No don’t invite them, that’s not expected.

YANBU - Yes invite them in, it’s rude not to.

Yes I always invite in! But I can’t think of any of
my DCs’ friends’ parents that I wouldn’t enjoy a chat with.

I never really did unless I was also friends with them. We don't have to be friends just because the children are.

Yes definitely invite in. Even if they don't want to sit down and chat, at least so they stand in the hallway rather than on the doorstep whilst waiting for their child to get ready to go home.

I used to play it by ear. Sometimes it's obvious they're in a hurry to get away - say, a working parent who's picking up on their way home. I know I'd just want to collect, say thank you and run!

Other times I did ask people to step inside, but didn't offer anything - because it was usually adult supper prep time etc, and I was keen to get tidying up. I tended just to take them to where the kids had been playing, perhaps to show what they'd been up to (if art/craft etc, or if they'd constructed a railway track together etc). But I wouldn't usually want them to sit down at that time of day!

I don't think there's a hard and fast rule - it depends.

Only if it's raining.

Ask them to step inside into the hall , yes……maybe even into the kitchen…..but that’s it…..bit of chit chat…..then bye bye….not any big house tours or coffee …..unless they are friends already