How Many Times Do You Go Out When You Have Kids??

We have 2 girls, 3 years and 9 months. I go out by myself with my mom's group for dinner once a month, my husband also goes out once a month with his guy friends. We have a date night together about once (maybe twice) a month if we're lucky.

We go out together about 1/month, and separately out with friends each about 1 time every other month. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it works for us (and it's too expensive to do more than that!)

Our daughter is now 15. From day 1, we agreed that we would never forgo weekly date night unless of sickness, etc. We have missed very few.

We still go on weekly date nights. It is not an option. It was much harder when she was younger. I had good high school sitters and guaranteed them a weekly $40 minimum. Most date nights were $60-$80 but we consider it a good investment in our relationship which keeps our family stable and secure.

Sometimes we have dinner at a super 5 star place, others are as simple as me tagging along with hubby to watch him practice his golf game, tag along on golf tournaments, go shopping, and go dancing. It can be done. Hang in there.

My husband is a truck driver.. so finding time for just us in insane b/c we have to fit our time, family time & kid playing time into a wkend.. but we go out together as a family.. I go to the gym or try to everday (besides wkend) w/ my friends.. they have a daycare so i get 1-1 1/2 hr to work out & chat. I make playdates w/ friends thru the week so the kids can run around. I have 3 kids so it's hard and one on the way...lol so there really is not me time.. but they're transportable.. so they do go everywhere i go..lol

I don't know what you mean by "out", but I'm a stay at home mom and I take them everywhere with me, even when my husband is home. Grocery shopping, basketball games, the mall. I have four kids (1 in kindergarten and 3 still at home) and I use to be afraid of taking all of them out. But now, I load them up and we go out a few times a week. At first it was chaos, but they're use to it now, everyone behaves and it's better than sitting at home. Hope this answers your question.

I have a one year old and an five year old. I go out with friends and leave the kids with their dad about every two months or so. Unfortunately, because I don't really feel comfortable leaving the baby with a sitter (he is a handful), my husband and I only go out alone a few times a year. My parents live about an hour away and we sometimes stay over there and go out. We also go on vacation with them and try to go out while we are away. I actually have access to great sitters from the kids' daycare and I can see us using them when my youngest is older and is easier to put to bed. For now, we do what we can and we love going out as a family!

Our kids are 5 and 2 1/2 (13 weeks pregnant with #3.)

We NEVER go out with just "friends"......... If we're both not invited, we don't go! And if our kids aren't invited, we don't go!

As for dates, maybe once every 4 to 6 months. We prefer to do things as a family at this stage. The kids are growing up so fast and we love spending our time all together.

I'm fairly sure I'm not typical. Let's see - my son is 11 yrs 5 months old. There was one year where I didn't work on Fridays and my husband could take every other Friday off, and we did a lunch date about once a month or so when our son was in school - so that year maybe it was 8 or 9 times. The rest of the time we go out together as a family or I take our son to his taekwondo tournaments and other activities. We like each others company. It's not that we don't do anything, we just like doing it together. We go boating, walking on the beach and fly some kites, we'll go see a movie a few times a year, visit the aquarium, the zoo and Air and Space museum. As our son gets older, he'll want to do more with his friends. Right now we're all happy together.

When our daughter was young ,we tried to go out alone at least once a month. Once she was about 3, we went out about every 2 weeks. We had neighbors and we would hire a sitter to watch our kids together..

I go out with my preschool mom friends twice a month following our board or parent meetings, sometimes we don't but it's rare. I also go out with other friends once a month, or when there's a birthday or someone in town. My husband would rather stay home, and we don't go out much together because he doesn't trust anyone with our kids yet ;)

My husband and I go out once per month on a Sunday during the day... It's great and well needed for parents.. My MIL or a sitter comes over and we go to the movies, lunch or something like that..

The kids are part time in daycare while I look for a job so I've gone to lunch with my friend once. Other than that we don't have a babysitter and our family is over 10 hours away so we don't get to go out without the kids. The only thing I can think of that we are doing without the kids is I just had a doc appt while they were in daycare, and YIPPEE, we are getting our taxes done on Friday without the kids, not very romantic. I would love to find a good babysitter so we could go out once a month.

Almost never. But they're little. As they get older, I'm sure we'll be able to do that more. We have my parents in town, so we have babysitters. Of course, we've taken living cheaply to heart. I'm not sure if we really want to waste the money on a night out, even though we can afford it occasionally.

My husband and I have 3 kids. Ages 4 yrs 2 yrs and 4 months. I can probably count on one hand how many times we have gone out withut them. They are out children to raise not someone elses. We do have date nights after the kids are in bed. I am a stay at home mom and I love it.

just the two of us not very often, we don't have a reliable babysitter yet.

All of us, every couple of weeks.
Tried to start a moms morning out thing but nothing ever panned out with it.

This is kind of complicated for me to answer...first of all my husband works nights Mon-Fridays....that being said, we go out on a Saturday with friends about 1x every month and a half. It really depends on what time of year - certain parts of the year we have more friends birthdays so we'll go out 2 Saturdays in a row. Other months we are home every weekend.

We are lucky because both parents live closeby and between the two of us, we have five sisters who we are comfortable watching our kids. If we go out late on a Saturday night, my MIL and SIL (10 / 12) will stay overnight so that we can sleep in alittle and get up with the kids. Sometimes they stay the night at my parents house too.

As far as hubby going out by himself - he never does. Not that I don't let him or anything but we don't have much time with the four of us (only Sat/Sundays) so he'd rather be home relaxing. Plus we live in the country and he always says it's such a far drive and he doesn't want to drink/drive. I always try to get him to go out with friends...LOL. We are at a stage in our life where his bf's wife is pregnant and they both work or go to school, another friend works most weekends, etc so it's hard to get together (his words).

I go out a lot more than he does. I'd say 1x a month I go out without him - either on a Friday and I get a sitter or on a Sat/Sun and hubby keeps the kids.

For example, in April alone, I'll be gone two Fridays (1st night right around the time the kids go to bed and I'm going to a benefit for their daycare, 2nd night is for my mom's retirement party for school) and then the entire last weekend for a scrapbooking weekend.

In March, we went out together once with friends on a Saturday and once on a Sunday without the kids to a nice restaurant for brunch.

We are lucky as far as friends go because all of our friends hang out together. We have always done this since we started dating 9+ years ago. We don't have 'his' and 'her' friends so that has never been an issue for us.

I go out at least once a week without the kids (3 and 1yrs old). Most of the time its a date with my husband other times its a mom's night out with friends. I dont have any family in town to babysit my kids but have found a reliable sitter. Having a social life and time to relax a few hours a week makes me a better mom in so many ways.

My husband and I try to have date night once a week with just the two of us, but right now we are doing good to have it once a month. I think every relationship needs a date night where you can just go back when you were actually dating to that nonsense talk and flirting over a glass of wine. I wouldn't give up my date nights for anything. I agree with the person below that date nights do make you into better parents.