Playdate etiquette

[Lizardonachair]

I have a nearly three year old who I know would love to play with some of her friends from nursery. The problem is I don't know any of the mums at the nursery. What is the play date etiquette at this age? Is it normal just to ask other mums to meet at the park after nursery or do I need to know them first?

Following as will soon be in a similar situation

Find out from her key worker who she plays with and ask the parents of those children if they would like to go to the playground for a bit. If they aren't free then swap numbers and say you would like to arrange something as your daughter would love to play with their child. To be honest I found it harder at nursery as everyone is rushing home after work to make dinner or take older child to an activity etc. I found it easier after there had been some nursery birthdays and there was a bit of relaxed time to chat to arrange an actual playdate.

Agree with above. Make sure they're friends as it becomes awkward if they're not. It does get easier as they go into school as you begin to see the parents and give them the nod/smile when the kids come out together

Good point about the birthdays, my daughter has missed a few due to sickness unfortunately. Although I do find the whole birthday thing very awkward talking to other parents! This is partly why I wanted her to have some friends as I don't fancy inviting the whole class to her party (I don't think she will like it either), but she doesn't have a handful of friends I can invite either. I I will ask her key-worker thank you.

I am glad to hear that it gets easier at school, and they can ask people themselves by that age too!

You could ask nursery to pop a note in the other child/children's bag. From a personal perspective we used nursery as we needed full day care so would never have wanted to do after nursery to a playground as collecting close to 6pm but did do some weekend ones