June 12, 2025 • 7 mins
Mike has never done a solo playdate with a Dad of one of his kids friends. It has always been with his wife with the other moms. He has no idea what he is supposed to do on these!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I'm Ali Max, and I'm Mike. I'm the one that
does not have kids.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm the one that does.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You've got three of them, three, yeah, eleven, five and two, and.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So far you have not had to do this so low.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
No, No.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
My daughter's eleven and with her friends, the moms would
always go, so like if there was ever a solo
one on one play day, it would have been a
little awkward if the dad if I went with like
the mom, So it was just moms that went, and
that worked just fine. I would go to birthday parties
and I would meet the other parents, but like that's
(00:36):
the only time I really went and did those kind
of things. However, Milow, my five year old, who is
uh he just finished pre K. He made a couple
friends and they do these this cool thing now where
they send home like almost like business cards or invite cards.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hey let's hang out this summer.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So my wife again will go out of her way
to text these people and connect with them and and
just start that relationship. One of them was a dad,
which is new, and.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
My wife said, well, I think you should probably do
this one because.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Do you think he knows who you are?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I don't know I don't know. I never put that.
I never thought about it. Maybe maybe I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I would think that you'd be like in demand, like
people would be hitting you up, like, yeah, let's get
the kids together. Also, what's the status on the free tickets?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You know, there was one kid in his class, one
dad in his class, and I don't maybe it was
this one.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I never really thought of that. But he immediately goes, hey,
how about them lions? Like right when I started and
I was like, or right when my little first started,
and I was like, I thought you just was just
talking sports. I thought I had some lions on. He goes, no, no,
I saw you. You know, I think you saw I
went to the draft or something. He's like, I follow you.
I listened to the show all the time. Blah blah
blah blah blah. Yeah see, I don't know if this
(01:52):
is like that. Maybe it is, maybe because people are
actually pretty like like nobody's going out of their way
to ask about tickets yet. But maybe this is how
they get in. Maybe this is how they get in.
They just like, hey, let's feel play date.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I don't know that that's the case, but I don't
know what to do here either, because I've never done
the one on one solo play dates. I've gone over
to friend's houses. Again, my wife is usually there, their
wife is there. It's all of our kids together. It's
never like a solo. Hey, let's go to the park
and sit down and just our two kids play. I
don't know what you're supposed to do do. I sit
(02:26):
in the car and they just play. And then I said,
all right, my litt let's go. Do I have to
make conversation with this person. What if this person doesn't
want to make conversation. Yeah, super, thank you, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
What I don't know, I don't have I don't have kids.
I mean, like I brought my niece to a birthday
party one time. Okay, so like fill in while her
parents were busy.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And did you make friends when you were there?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We sat in the corner.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
See he's sat in the corner. But like, I'm the aunt.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Like a couple of the moms came up to me
and they were like, hey, we've not seen you before,
like which one is yours? And I'm like, oh, I'm
the aunt. I'm just on fill and duty today and
they're like, oh, and that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
A I mean, it's the same but kind of different
because it's a birthday party. And when a birthday party
there's a lot of people. You can kind of disappear
in the background if you want to. If you want
to go talk to people, you can. With this, it
is a forced one on one. There's nowhere to go.
If you don't say anything, it might be weird. If
you do say a lot of things, which I tend
to do, it might be weird. And I've also envisioned
(03:26):
it from his side, like what if he goes and
he's like, I hung out with Milo's dad and the
dude would not shut up.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
He just kept talking. Good morning, Welcome to the B
ninety three Morning Show. What's your name and where are
you from? I am Kathy from Kathy? Are you the
playdate parent?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I was calling on behalf of my husband in situations
he's had.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So yeah, okay, let me hear it.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I just think that he always went armed with an
activity that he would enjoy doing with his son. So
participating in the play date with the and then you
don't have to sit in an awkward bench talking and
the boys want to break off and go do their
own things. Then at least the ice is kind of
broken and you can kind of you know, oh where
(04:14):
you work, you know, kind of have casual conversation. But
I feel like my husband has always participated in the
playdates versus I usually sit on the bench in chat
with the mom.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So okay, I like that. I like that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And that's the thing that I don't want to do
is I don't want to get on the play date
and uh and none of the kids want to do
the activities or we're all standing around and the dad
doesn't want to do anything, but the kids want to play.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You know what, you got to bring this dad something
when you come. You got to bring him like a gift,
not like a gift, but like a coffee or something,
just so you can like break the ice and be like,
hey man, here's a here's something that'll get us through
the next couple hours.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I think a cool like activity that they could do.
What like, what's your favorite thing to do with your son?
So like, okay, you know, isn't like I don't know,
it's trying to think of a pet of all game
like where you're throwing it between each other, you know
something like that, like something that all moore of you,
so that you guys could all do it together and
(05:14):
time and much. Who love coffee, but who knows how
people take their coffee. I don't know if I would
do the coffee thing.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
But if you get a straight black coffee with some creamer,
then I mean you can't go wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean yeah, I like, these are great ideas. I'm
writing them down. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You're welsome, but have a great wording you two bye bye.
Good tips.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
These are great tips.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I would love to hear stories on if these have
worked or if you have tips. This is This isn't
something that I feel like should be hard. I've been
a parent for eleven years now, but I've never been
on a one on one play date because my daughter
always brought her friends always brought their mom And so
like I'm not going to go to that, my wife
is going to go to that. Good morning, Welcome to
(05:57):
the ninety three eight Morning Show. What's your name and
where you're from?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Good morning?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
This is your wife and I am from Huttonville.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
This my wife is Ali, who has been texting me
about this. Dad played a thing, and you think this
is a good idea.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Right, yes?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Please?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Why hold on? Why do you say it like that?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
You need you need some dad time.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I need some dad like playtime. It feels as though
you're kicking me out of the house.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Never.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Never, you need someone to talk to projects about and
supports because a lot of the time I don't get
what you're saying, and I just NodD along and say yes,
of course, And I just I just don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But I think you.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Really need another another dad to do that with.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And you've been doing this for the last eleven years.
So it's his turn.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes, you hear that exasperation.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, please, okay, I will, I will.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now we just have to find the perfect dad.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Maybe this will be the guy it could be. He
looks you know what I tell you already this already
he looks like.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Nate Smith, So you already know he's gonna be cool.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
He's probably super cool.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But like, I don't know, it's just a it's an
awkward forced interaction with somebody. You have to hang out
with this person, not because of anything but something that
but your child and so like you know, your kids
get along, right, yeah, So like you would think that
the dads also would get along, but sometimes they're completely
different than the kids.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm gonna manifest a dad best friend for you at
this play Day ninety three,
I'm Ali Max, and I'm Mike. I'm the one that
does not have kids.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm the one that does.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
You've got three of them, three, yeah, eleven, five and two, and.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So far you have not had to do this so low.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
No, No.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
My daughter's eleven and with her friends, the moms would
always go, so like if there was ever a solo
one on one play day, it would have been a
little awkward if the dad if I went with like
the mom, So it was just moms that went, and
that worked just fine. I would go to birthday parties
and I would meet the other parents, but like that's
(00:36):
the only time I really went and did those kind
of things. However, Milow, my five year old, who is
uh he just finished pre K. He made a couple
friends and they do these this cool thing now where
they send home like almost like business cards or invite cards.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Hey let's hang out this summer.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So my wife again will go out of her way
to text these people and connect with them and and
just start that relationship. One of them was a dad,
which is new, and.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
My wife said, well, I think you should probably do
this one because.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Do you think he knows who you are?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I don't know I don't know. I never put that.
I never thought about it. Maybe maybe I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I would think that you'd be like in demand, like
people would be hitting you up, like, yeah, let's get
the kids together. Also, what's the status on the free tickets?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You know, there was one kid in his class, one
dad in his class, and I don't maybe it was
this one.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I never really thought of that. But he immediately goes, hey,
how about them lions? Like right when I started and
I was like, or right when my little first started,
and I was like, I thought you just was just
talking sports. I thought I had some lions on. He goes, no, no,
I saw you. You know, I think you saw I
went to the draft or something. He's like, I follow you.
I listened to the show all the time. Blah blah
blah blah blah. Yeah see, I don't know if this
(01:52):
is like that. Maybe it is, maybe because people are
actually pretty like like nobody's going out of their way
to ask about tickets yet. But maybe this is how
they get in. Maybe this is how they get in.
They just like, hey, let's feel play date.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I don't know that that's the case, but I don't
know what to do here either, because I've never done
the one on one solo play dates. I've gone over
to friend's houses. Again, my wife is usually there, their
wife is there. It's all of our kids together. It's
never like a solo. Hey, let's go to the park
and sit down and just our two kids play. I
don't know what you're supposed to do do. I sit
(02:26):
in the car and they just play. And then I said,
all right, my litt let's go. Do I have to
make conversation with this person. What if this person doesn't
want to make conversation. Yeah, super, thank you, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
What I don't know, I don't have I don't have kids.
I mean, like I brought my niece to a birthday
party one time. Okay, so like fill in while her
parents were busy.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And did you make friends when you were there?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We sat in the corner.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
See he's sat in the corner. But like, I'm the aunt.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Like a couple of the moms came up to me
and they were like, hey, we've not seen you before,
like which one is yours? And I'm like, oh, I'm
the aunt. I'm just on fill and duty today and
they're like, oh, and that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
A I mean, it's the same but kind of different
because it's a birthday party. And when a birthday party
there's a lot of people. You can kind of disappear
in the background if you want to. If you want
to go talk to people, you can. With this, it
is a forced one on one. There's nowhere to go.
If you don't say anything, it might be weird. If
you do say a lot of things, which I tend
to do, it might be weird. And I've also envisioned
(03:26):
it from his side, like what if he goes and
he's like, I hung out with Milo's dad and the
dude would not shut up.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
He just kept talking. Good morning, Welcome to the B
ninety three Morning Show. What's your name and where are
you from? I am Kathy from Kathy? Are you the
playdate parent?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I was calling on behalf of my husband in situations
he's had.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So yeah, okay, let me hear it.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I just think that he always went armed with an
activity that he would enjoy doing with his son. So
participating in the play date with the and then you
don't have to sit in an awkward bench talking and
the boys want to break off and go do their
own things. Then at least the ice is kind of
broken and you can kind of you know, oh where
(04:14):
you work, you know, kind of have casual conversation. But
I feel like my husband has always participated in the
playdates versus I usually sit on the bench in chat
with the mom.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So okay, I like that. I like that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And that's the thing that I don't want to do
is I don't want to get on the play date
and uh and none of the kids want to do
the activities or we're all standing around and the dad
doesn't want to do anything, but the kids want to play.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You know what, you got to bring this dad something
when you come. You got to bring him like a gift,
not like a gift, but like a coffee or something,
just so you can like break the ice and be like,
hey man, here's a here's something that'll get us through
the next couple hours.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I think a cool like activity that they could do.
What like, what's your favorite thing to do with your son?
So like, okay, you know, isn't like I don't know,
it's trying to think of a pet of all game
like where you're throwing it between each other, you know
something like that, like something that all moore of you,
so that you guys could all do it together and
(05:14):
time and much. Who love coffee, but who knows how
people take their coffee. I don't know if I would
do the coffee thing.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
But if you get a straight black coffee with some creamer,
then I mean you can't go wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean yeah, I like, these are great ideas. I'm
writing them down. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You're welsome, but have a great wording you two bye bye.
Good tips.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
These are great tips.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I would love to hear stories on if these have
worked or if you have tips. This is This isn't
something that I feel like should be hard. I've been
a parent for eleven years now, but I've never been
on a one on one play date because my daughter
always brought her friends always brought their mom And so
like I'm not going to go to that, my wife
is going to go to that. Good morning, Welcome to
(05:57):
the ninety three eight Morning Show. What's your name and
where you're from?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Good morning?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
This is your wife and I am from Huttonville.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
This my wife is Ali, who has been texting me
about this. Dad played a thing, and you think this
is a good idea.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Right, yes?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Please?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Why hold on? Why do you say it like that?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
You need you need some dad time.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I need some dad like playtime. It feels as though
you're kicking me out of the house.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Never.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Never, you need someone to talk to projects about and
supports because a lot of the time I don't get
what you're saying, and I just NodD along and say yes,
of course, And I just I just don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But I think you.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Really need another another dad to do that with.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And you've been doing this for the last eleven years.
So it's his turn.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes, you hear that exasperation.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, please, okay, I will, I will.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now we just have to find the perfect dad.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Maybe this will be the guy it could be. He
looks you know what I tell you already this already
he looks like.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Nate Smith, So you already know he's gonna be cool.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
He's probably super cool.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But like, I don't know, it's just a it's an
awkward forced interaction with somebody. You have to hang out
with this person, not because of anything but something that
but your child and so like you know, your kids
get along, right, yeah, So like you would think that
the dads also would get along, but sometimes they're completely
different than the kids.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm gonna manifest a dad best friend for you at
this play Day ninety three,
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