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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Do you believe in adult-only dinners?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With our kids at overnight camp, my husband, Rich, and I have been enjoying Atlanta’s fabulous dining scene while catching up with friends for quiet adult dinners. Our son Jack’s non-stop spring and summer baseball season ate up almost every weekend and we haven’t been able to socialize with our friends in ages.
We moved to Atlanta with young children, so many of our friends are people we met through our kids. But as siblings age, or new siblings arrive, we sometime reach that moment of family inequitably, where the kids don’t really mesh either because of gender or age differences. Since there’s that awkwardness of incompatibility, we often try to schedule adult dinners out with those friends when we really want to be able to connect in a stress-free environment.
We have some friends who don’t believe in going out without their kids and always insist on a family-oriented event, even though our kids don’t match on gender, age or interests.
Do you believe in going out without your children? How do you handle it when families don’t fit when it comes to socializing?
