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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]6th graders aren't teens, they're kids. In fact, teens are kids as well.[/quote]

All correct, but none of it changes the fact that, as your child gets older, you cannot micromanage their lives the way you once did, including requiring them to stay friends with old friends - which was the issue in the original post here.[/quote]

Again, how is it micro managing? If a friendship truly falls through then ok, but I'm not going to let my kid just dump friends for stupid reasons. So kids who may have different interests can't be friends? If they were ever real friends they can be.[/quote]

DP. This all sounds nice, but in my experience, it makes everything so much worse when parents keep insisting they hang out. So much avoidable awkwardness for the dumpee (who was my kid, btw). This stuff is all in flux for years. Kids who were childhood friends might stop talking to each other in 6th grade, and then in 9th grade, they might become friends again (or not). But it has to happen organically. [/quote]

I'm just saying that I wouldn't be ok with my kid just dumping their friends for no reason. If they organically just drifted apart, ok that happens. [/quote]

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