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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have four kids - youngest is a senior in high school.  [b]For some reason, there is more drama and breaking of friend groups in the last term.  Fights erupt over whose doing beach week together, going to prom together, etc. [/b] I almost put it down to too much time together and dealing with the aftermath of the stress of the college process.  Who gets in where and who doesn't can lead to hard feelings too.  All so random.

My advice (FWIW) is to encourage your child to reach out to their other friend groups or peripheral friends.  Or even find old friends that they lost close touch with.  One of my kid's oldest friends had this happen to them right before prom - instead of staying home and stewing - they reached out to my kid and joined their group.  Once they go away to college and come back, the drama seems to fade away and people are friends or friendly again. [/quote]

A lot of this can be avoided by staying away from the high drama friend groups in the first place. The ones that are toxic in 9th grade will still be toxic in 12th. Your kid might just find themselves on the wrong side of the drama at the end.[/quote].

I didn’t know we got to choose our kids’s friends in HS? If I had known, I would have chosen differently. [/quote]

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