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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite so far has been the middle school age.  I actually didn't like infant to preschool so much - I don't like structuring my day around sleep and eating schedules and always having to carry snacks, pants, etc.  I do very much enjoy watching all my hard work materialize in a child who makes good decisions and surprises me everyday with the adult they are becoming ([b]seriously I love MS[/b]). By HS they are SO independent they almost don't need me for anything more than advice here and there.[/quote]

Wow this is maybe the first time I have ever heard this. While my own kids are lovely in MS, the friend drama and social pressures are enough to push me off a cliff. [/quote]

Totally agree there are a lot of social pressures.  I suppose we are a fairly low drama house when it comes to friends.  I hear about some of it but it's not pervasive for us. BTW I have 3 girls 1 boy.  I also spoke to my kids at length over many conversations about how people need to develop socially and everyone makes mistakes and some adults are stuck in this stage and have never fully developed.  Maybe expecting the drama mitigated it?[/quote]

Or you just got lucky? I have no control over poor behavior and decisions of kids that are not my own. One of my kids in particular just has a bunch of a-holes in her grade. [/quote]

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