Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 10:34:08 -0400

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: New word? playdate



My kids have been playing with other kids for the past 10 years, but just

within the last year mothers have started saying "Let's arrange a playdate--"

a time when the kids can play. Even my daughter picked it up as a new term,

at least for our circle of friends. Is this really new or are we leading

sheltered lives?



Dale Coye



I do not remember the exact term employed by the bulletin at my church, but

a new group is now meeting once a week in the middle of the day in the

middle of the week so that children who are at home with their mothers (how

do they afford this?) can meet together and play--just like "normal" kids

in day care/child care.



I would have appreciated this group in the summer when I was babysitting

and trying to finish my book with Barney blaring in the background four

times a day via direct satellite TV.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College & State University

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

FAX: 912-454-0873

Office: Arts & Sciences 3-04

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu