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[quote=Anonymous]I don't meddle in my kids' friendships because I have seen it backfire very badly.

There was a mom who worked really hard to build up her overweight DD Larla's friendships by becoming good friends with lots of moms of girls. When the moms got together, so did the girls. Larla didn't make friends on her own very easily for a variety of reasons other than her weight. There were also a lot of unfavorable comparisons between her and her social butterfly popular mom.

By middle school the weight issue couldn't be overcome by the mom's efforts. All of Larla's resentful forced friends ditched her. There was some bullying where the former force friends rubbed it in Larla's face that everyone had been forced to play with her in elementary. She eventually changed schools to get a fresh start with kids who had never been forced to play with her. On the positive side, Larla eventually figured out how to make friends on her own.

Not saying this scenario happens very often, but it's something that can happen when you force things between kids that don't naturally want to play together. What if Larla's mom had just accepted her DD being mildly unpopular in elementary?[/quote]

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