http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/7-exit-strategies-for-playdates/ Making my kids hate me one post at a time. Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:05:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/7-exit-strategies-for-playdates/#comment-13872 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:22:04 +0000 http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/?p=5200#comment-13872 We are slowly graduating from the playdate phase, which I’m grateful for. But the new territory of drop-off playdates can backfire as well. Most of the time, the kids that come over are well-behaved. But it’s those rare ones that work my last nerve that make me wish I could pull a #4. Can’t really do that at my home though. Faking IBS and hiding out in the bathroom seems to be the only solution until their parents retrieve them.

]]> http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/7-exit-strategies-for-playdates/#comment-13839 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 01:20:49 +0000 http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/?p=5200#comment-13839 Playdates are the worst. Although when you get to the drop off stage, you run into other problems – like now you have to be the mom to other people’s poorly behaved kids. I like #6 exit strategy the best. Only problem is if you happen to say it to a parent who actually IS a swinger. Then you’re in deep shit.

]]> http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/7-exit-strategies-for-playdates/#comment-13703 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:03:48 +0000 http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/?p=5200#comment-13703 The implication that one is a swinger. Nothing clears a room faster. And if it doesn’t clear the room? Mace whoever’s left and run.

]]> http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/7-exit-strategies-for-playdates/#comment-13693 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:59:24 +0000 http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/?p=5200#comment-13693 Thank goodness for posts like this – I always felt odd for not enjoying all the “my kid does this” and thinly veiled questions about how overprotective I am (an assumption because I had only one child). Good luck to you – you’re a better, stronger woman than I!

]]> http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/7-exit-strategies-for-playdates/#comment-13687 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:23:05 +0000 http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/?p=5200#comment-13687 “Emergency face” …I love this!

]]> http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/7-exit-strategies-for-playdates/#comment-13682 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:25:50 +0000 http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/?p=5200#comment-13682 Ack! I am still “hanging around myself making small talk, eating stale goldfish and wondering where the wine [is]”. THANK YOU for helping take me to the bliss of where you are at!

]]> http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/7-exit-strategies-for-playdates/#comment-13674 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:34:50 +0000 http://www.toulouseandtonic.com/?p=5200#comment-13674 Personally, number 2 is my favorite. I would totally do this.

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