> At best you might get the contact info for the parents of kids the same age as yours.
This is actually one of the better ways to make friends as an adult, especially as a new parent whose time is limited.
Your single friends are unlikely to have a schedule similar to yours - you can't as easily go out for beers after work, and you're almost certainly not staying out 'til 3am with a young child at home without some pre-scheduling.
But at the playground, you have people who have at least one thing in common with you, which means a common topic as an ice-breaker or an on-going conversation. You have people who'll understand your schedule, and your general availability. You have a place where you'll both be coming to regularly enough to either build up a rapport that can turn into friendship, but also a low-stakes environment where you can drift apart if you're incompatible without feeling bad.
As a parent, a playground is arguably the best possible place to make new friends as an adult.
This is actually one of the better ways to make friends as an adult, especially as a new parent whose time is limited.
Your single friends are unlikely to have a schedule similar to yours - you can't as easily go out for beers after work, and you're almost certainly not staying out 'til 3am with a young child at home without some pre-scheduling.
But at the playground, you have people who have at least one thing in common with you, which means a common topic as an ice-breaker or an on-going conversation. You have people who'll understand your schedule, and your general availability. You have a place where you'll both be coming to regularly enough to either build up a rapport that can turn into friendship, but also a low-stakes environment where you can drift apart if you're incompatible without feeling bad.
As a parent, a playground is arguably the best possible place to make new friends as an adult.