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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nice kids who my kids play with well.[/quote]

This.  That's reallly all I care about.  DS has friends with a wide variety of backgrounds.  As long as the kids are nice and respectful, I don't really care about anything else.  Even if the kid came from a not so great background, I would be happy to host the kid at my house. [/quote]

+1. We live in a very wealthy area, where our 1.3M house makes us one of the less wealthy families. So, like someone else wrote, by those standards we've done a lot of filtering already (something that I kind of regret). That said, we haven't had reason friends. My daughter just turned 2 and she has a cute little group of friends. My daughter is very active, curious, and relatively adaptable/easy-going, which makes her a great play-date/friend as she models a lot of good behavior naturally. She doesn't have issues taking turns or sharing, she loves to hug, and is very verbal, creative, and dexterous. One of her friends is struggling with sharing (she throws toys at other kids instead of giving them toys when it's their turn). Her other good friend can be a little rough when playing (the "thrower" kid is the rough kid's neighbor and actually hid from the rough kid for a while when it was time for play dates, not exactly a ringing endorsement! However, this little girl has an older brother who can play roughly with her and just had a younger brother and I think may be struggling a bit with the latter). My daughter somehow manages to play well with both of these little girls and they both like her and rarely act out with her (they more so act out with each other). We could have just cut these kids off, but we monitor play dates and understand that they are still learning how to be respectful.

Due to the pandemic and our being relatively new to the area, we aren't amazing friends with any of my kid's friends parents. They are all super rich and relatively nice, but also seem somewhat humorless. That said, I would never try to cull my daughter's friend group just because I wouldn't choose their parents as my best friends.[/quote]

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