5 Tricks for Surviving Your Kid’s Playdate with an Obnoxious Friend

December 31, 2014

We’ve all been there. I sure have! Your (my) kid wants to have a playdate with an obnoxious child that you can’t stand. That sounds so harsh, but how else am I supposed to describe the 7-year-old who makes it snow Legos in my clean living room? Who yanks on my sweet Golden Retriever’s tail. Who opens my closed bedroom door and jumps on my…

Single mom Christine Coppa is the author of the Target Breakout Book, Rattled! (Broadway Books, 2009) and the founding blogger of glamour.com's acclaimed Storked! blog where she spilled it about navigating an unplanned pregnancy and single motherhood minus her son's father. You can also find her witty (and often controversial blogs) on parenting.com, babble.com and Nickmom.com A professional writer/editor, she's contributed to Glamour, Marie Claire (Australia), First for Women, In Touch, Parenting, Baby Talk, and Parents among other publications and notable websites. Her work has been buzzed about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on ABC's 20/20. Coppa and her son represented the Yoplait Kids brand in 2011. The Sunday London Times called her a writer "at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." Coppa lives in North Jersey with her son Jack Domenic, 6 who is currently campaigning for a Golden Retriever puppy.