Reception holiday play dates

[Overthebow]

How many play dates are your reception age DCs doing over the summer holidays? I’m worried we haven’t got much planned for dd, she’s got a few holidays clubs with a friend, and one other play date but that’s it. Should I be arranging more? She has a packed summer with grandparents and holidays so she won’t be bored but should she be seeing her friends more? I have ASD so struggle with this kind of thing and am not sure what’s normal.

My DD is way past reception age but I think this sounds fine as you've said she'll be busy with holidays, grandparents, holiday clubs etc. She's still very young and probably over the next few years she'll want to have more playdates, meet up with friends etc. but at the moment is probably quite happy doing mostly family stuff.

We rarely do any playdates, mine are older but even when younger we were often doing our own thing. There seems to be an obsession on MN about playdates but I don't see the fuss.

There’s no formula for this.
Inviting people round was a cheap and fun way to fill in the time here but it sounds like you have lots planned so it’ll be fine

I work 4 days a week and have 2 separate weeks off.

Reception aged dd has 1 party and 2 play dates (actually a childcare swap).

Year 5 dd has no plans with friends currently.

If you have a big cohort of working parents then play dates are quite tough as you really need them to be a whole work day, so can feel like a bit of an ask.

We had no play dates before y1. Most kids are on holiday for a couple of weeks and already booked into clubs for childcare.

That makes me feel better then. I was going to put more emphasis on play dates in year one but then had a panic that maybe everyone else was doing playdates and dd wouldn’t be doing them.