Friend who ignored DD for several years showed up again, how would you guide your kid?

[Anonymous]

You're doing great, OP.

Good advice on this thread. I have a DD that age and it's a tough age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're doing great, OP.

Good advice on this thread. I have a DD that age and it's a tough age.

+1 Setting and maintaining healthy boundaries is tough, even for many adults. Sending good wishes to you and your DD, OP.

-PP who mentioned the tween boundaries book earlier in the chat.

[Anonymous]

Personal experience … I kind of changed friend groups for a couple of years and came crawling back in 8th grade. The OG friends and I are super close almost 30 years later. I’m glad no parents intervened in our friendship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Personal experience … I kind of changed friend groups for a couple of years and came crawling back in 8th grade. The OG friends and I are super close almost 30 years later. I’m glad no parents intervened in our friendship.

Thanks for that perspective. Appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

Obviously have the talk with DD that Sally is a fickle friend who is likely to ditch DD when/if Sally's old friend group readmits Sally. DD should even have this talk with Sally herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're doing great, OP.

Good advice on this thread. I have a DD that age and it's a tough age.

Thank you for that affirmation.

I've posted on DCUM a couple times before and gotten good advise, but the quality of this discussion has been really excellent. I have saved a lot of the thoughtful comments.
I am going to try and emulate a lot of you in the future if I ever give advise to someone!