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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, this is the nature of cliques -- the people in them love them and to everyone else they are an annoyance (at best) or actually hurtful (at worst). I think it's especially tough with kids because if your child is left out because you are outside the clique, you are apt to feel guilty even thought you didn't do anything wrong.

It's tough but it happens. I remind myself that I am not a fan of cliques even when I am invited, as I prefer to socialize with friends one on one and don't do amazingly with group dynamics -- I have never really enjoyed hanging out in groups of 4-10 women, not even when I was in high school or college and this is who women often hung out. One of the nice things about adulthood to me has been the ability to maintain friendships without being part of some kind of clique, which I find simplifies friendships and cuts down on drama and hurt feelings.

So even when a clique makes me feel a little excluded, I recall that I don't really do well inside cliques, and that helps with the hurt feelings.

It doesn't help with my kid, though. That aspect sucks and I wish women wouldn't form these cliques via school groups for this reason -- it imposes these dynamics on kids who should really have more freedom to form their own friendships.[/quote]

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