International Playdate Day began as an idea created by Ilona Viluma, a mother who was concerned about the use of technology kids have been using over the past decade.
Feeling that kids spend too much time on their tablets and phones instead of with each other, she developed this event in 2018 as a way to get kids to play with one another again and to get parents to start scheduling playdates for their kids so their kids can learn the social skills they need to succeed and interact with people.
When I was a child no-one used the word playdate. We just went to the park or to someone else's place to play, but I do hear the parents in the library planning playdates for their child with another parent, so the children I teach definitely use the word playdate. This is reflected in the titles of books in our library, but on a closer look I did see that the majority of them are American which is where the word originated.
If your child is struggling with the concept, perhaps read a story and discuss how the characters in the book cope with it.
• Playdate by Maryann Macdonald and Rahele Jomepour Bell
• The Playdate by Uje Brandelius and Clara Dackenberg
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