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[quote=Anonymous]Cultivating friendships outside of school has been really great for my DD. She has three good non-school friends (kids of people we are very friendly with already, so very easy to facilitate those friendships) and it just takes all the pressure off at school. She has several school friends but there is not "friend group" and she doesn't seem to feel bad about not having one (those exist at the school, but her socializing is more amorphous and her friends aren't always friends with each other). She focuses more on the connection with each person and doesn't expect anyone to be her best friend -- it's more like this is the friend who loves to read as much as I do, this is my aftercare buddy, this is my friend who loves to do art with me, etc. I hope we can keep this up into middle school where I expect the pressure to be part of a group may intensify. But hopefully she continues to be practical and unbothered about it.[/quote]
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