I love little girl playdates...

[Bonsoir]

I can hear DD and her friend chirping away in DD's bedroom... it will go on all day... I can do whatever I like and I know that DD (and her friend) are having lots of fun and it's great for their personal development.

Ah, what a lovely post.

I had a similar experience with ds' birthday party at the weekend. Lovely little boys.

Wow, I can't bear them. My dd becomes very proprietorial when other children visit. Not immediately but after an hour. After the honeymoon period! My son tries to sit staring at the 'date' and my dd tries to throw him out of the room.

It is hard work.

I am awful for returning playdates. My dd is invited everywhere and I cross the road to avoid the mothers then, duck into doorways, do an about turn in the milk aisle. It's hard work being such a bad mother.

My DD is still a bit young for having friends over unsupervised.

However when I was younger and au pairing a bit I used to HATE having friends over for the girls I minded - the level of high pitched screaming was unbearable. On the other hand the boys were always lovely and played engagingly and quitely

They made me laugh because they dressed up as Mummies and took the dolls out on a picnic. They were so very definitely yummy urban mummies - hats, neatly knotted scarves, handbags and very neatly dressed children .

Bonsoir, that's delightful. How old is your DD? Mine is just 2 and I am looking forward to little girl playdates too as I love hearing her play on her own (always chirping away to her dolls and with her teaset and playhouse and Bob The Builder trucks) :-)

Neah, I'm with Bonsoir (and I don't say that often). Playdates for DD were always delightful no-stress non-events for me and lovely for her. DS1's playdates were/are much more work for me, even now he's 10.

I say were because nowadays DS2 insists upon imposing himself on the girls' playdate, and there's no way I can really keep him fully occupied for several hours, so now DD's playdates are fraught with stress as I try my best to keep him out of DD's hair at least some of the time.

Aack, just remembered DD has a friend coming today !

fast forward a few years to when they are 14 and camping out in the garden with some smuggled in smirnoff ice,not so cute then!!!

Better than boys then... attention span of a goldfish

'lets play this... no THIS... NO THIS!!!!!, oh, where's your car..... no TRUCK... NO FIRE ENGINE!!!!! what's to eat... not I'm thirsty... don't like that. Can we make a cake? No a sandwich. Can we plant seeds? Can we chase next doors cat? I want to go to the park....' and so on. Every game and toy hrown on the floor, cupboards emptied and fridge raided.