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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids, ages 4 and 9, and while my kids have a ton of good friends at their schools (preschool and elementary), I am surprised that we have not become super close with any of their friends’ families. Growing up my brother and I were best friends with a pair of siblings our same ages/grades, and our parents became really close as well. We were two years apart and so were many other kids and their siblings, so it was really common I guess to have groups of friends like this. I have so many memories of weekend backyard get togethers, or even vacationing together on occasion.

We do have other friends with kids who don’t live in our neighborhood/area that we get together with regularly, but I always assumed it would be different once the kids were in elementary and we would find at least one family to be good friends with. Don’t get me wrong - everyone is nice enough, we have even tried having a couple families over last summer/fall… but there was never any reciprocation or interest in continuing to build the friendship.

What is your friend dynamic like with families from your kids’ schools?[/quote]

NO. The parents are all nice and friendly but they are just never really "our type" of friends. It was hard enough trying to have couple friends as a married couple, forget family friends. Everyone has to match which is 1 in a billion.[/quote]

I also want to note, I thought when we bought a home and our neighbors with kids could be our "friends" too but it's a big fat NO there too! Everyone sort of keeps to themselves in our neighborhood. [/quote]

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