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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When kids are friends "since they were babies" it's one of those parent-forced friendships that can't always withstand kids turning into adults who have their own distinct personalities and likes and dislikes.

Friendships that are made without parental engineering are healthier and last longer. Just encourage her make new friends and remind her that almost no adult is still "best friends" with someone they played with as a baby.[/quote]

This isn’t parental engineering. My kids still have friends from preschool (they are in middle and high school). The parents have nothing to do with these friendships and don’t orchestrate them. At a certain point kids start finding their own groups- sometimes it includes old friends and sometimes it doesn’t. And guess what? I’m 45 and still friends with some of my friends from the very early years of childhood. My DH still has early childhood friends and his parents are dead. My parents aren’t engineering my friendships as an adult lol. There really is something to say about deeper attachments to people you have known a really long time. However, things can change in any relationship at any time- that’s just life and you can’t predict when and if it will happen. [/quote]

I'm guessing you were a lifer at a private school.[/quote]

Or lived in a small town their whole life. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not the norm. Most kids living in cities will grow up to live in a variety of places before settling down and they won't keep in touch with their preschool bestie or the kid of their mom's firend they were forced to play with. I can't even remember the name of my best friend in kindergarten.[/quote]

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