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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, my daughter is at Holton and she stayed in touch with her public school friends and on top of that she has outside travel sports that is another group of friends.  I made it clear that would be important and it should be for your daughter as well.

I completely understand the social issues of friends not living near each other at a private school.  It makes it tough sometimes. The problem my daughter was having was these group chats of someone wanting to do something but then a few no's would make the whole group not go. Nothing would ever get finalized.  I taught her to do one of two things to get a guaranteed plan in action:

[b]1. Text one friend and plan an event with that one person.  Then decide between the two of you if you want to invite others.  Either all or none.  Don't make a girl feel left out.[/b]

2. If you invite a large group anywhere, set the date/time/event and just say "I hope you can all come, we will be there!"

So one time her and a friend said they were going to go to Westfields in Bethesda.  Sent out a group text and said we will be in the mall between 5-8pm.  We might go to see "____" movie at 8:10pm.  Text us if you arrive and we will meet up with you.  They ended up having 9 girls show up.  Most just last minute drop offs from parents.

This is exactly what happened with my middle school daughter and we advised the same thing. It worked! There was way too much group texting and no plans resulting before and I think it was because nobody wanted to be the one to make the plans. It sounds simple but it worked and others ended up showing up because they knew two girls were definitely there.

Same exact scenario here for my 9th grade DD.  It worked for her as well.
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