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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You really can’t know which friendships will last, OP. Kids can be jerks, even good kids, and most if not all relationships have some conflict. My best friend from when I was 12 is still one of my best friends. When we were 16 we had a falling out and didn’t speak for a year. We were both in the wrong and both said all kids of negative things about one another. Thank goodness our respective parents took it all with a grain of salt and didn’t intervene one way or another. We both did some maturing and reconciled - still friends 25+ years later. [/quote]

OP here checking back in. Yeah my daughter had a whole meltdown last night over a friend turned enemy spreading rumors, excluding and being downright nasty. I have hosted this kid countless times, given her rides and driven to every birthday usually far enough away it practically eats up the entire Saturday. I had ups and downs with friends, but we lived closeby, and nobodies parents were having to do much and yes, my mother encouraged me to just pay attention tom and have over the friends who were consistently kind.. Plus, our birthdays were in basements. There was reciprocity with having eachother's kids over. I hear what you are saying and I agree. They can be friends at school, but I have done A LOT for this girl and my kid's various friends and now I am only putting in the energy if at the time it seems like a happy friendship-which includes having fights, but resolving them.

I am sure there have been many threads on this, but why oh why does everyone chose birthday parties far away. To the person who had pay too...been there. It sucks.
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