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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After kindergarten, I just let my kids invite whoever they actually wanted to socialize with. At school they must play politely with everyone, but a party is by its very nature about getting together with a group of people the host specifically likes and wants to spend more time with. [/quote]

I disagree.  I have often had parties as an adult that the guest list is defined by the group of friends, not who I specifically wanted there necessarily, depending on the relationships or social structure.  I have one particular group of friends where there are 11 moms who are all fairly close but with varying degrees of friendship among us.  5 of them decided to have a little surprise birthday party for me (I don't normally like to celebrate) and several of the others were confused and a bit hurt they were not included.

I think as an adult we have to make these choices all the time to build and preserve relationships or the environment we have to live in (work, school) so learning that social behavior now will make it easier on him to make choices he's happy with in these situations as he gets older. [/quote]

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