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[quote=Anonymous]NP and my DD is a gymnast and a diver. She spends a lot of time with girls 2 years younger and 2-8 years older. In the case of diving, ages were more obvious from day 1 because of how competition age groups are kept consistent. In the case of gymnastics, there are girls whose ages I didn’t know for multiple years and didn’t realize they weren’t the same age as DD (comp age groups change every meet and are usually determined by taking every competition and dividing them into even groups by birthdate). I swam through HS and spent hours with kids older and younger and those are some of my happiest memories.

Anyway, I don’t have a problem with these friendships. They spend a lot of time together and if they’re doing sports together, they are hopefully too busy or tired to be getting into trouble. My DD also plays with kids in the neighborhood who range from 6 to 15. It helps that they don’t go to school together so no one feels weird about hanging out with older/younger kids.

The older girls have been a positive influence on DD and inspired her to work hard, helped her prepare for MS and HS academics, taught her some basics that I suck at (like hair care and crafts), and have doted on her like cousins and big sisters. DD doesn’t have siblings or older cousins, so this kind of attention and mentorship means a lot.

It would be really weird if adults only hung out with friends born during a 12-month period, but somehow we expect it to be the norm for kids?[/quote]

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