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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take it you're not friends with the moms on your street and that's why they excluded him?[/quote] In middle school? Kids do not care if mommies are friends. They have a mind of their own and some are just jerks. Some parents pull back too much and have no clue who their kids are spending time with and when they are dumping people at the last minute. It's not OPs place to clue the parent in, but it's a great chance to work on resiliency skills. Normalize that everyone experiences a friend or person they are dating who does things like this and it's painful, but it's also useful. As Maya Angelou says "when people show you who they are, believe them." Yes, middle school kids still have developing brains and can do stupid things, but this isn't close friend material. Allow him to be angry and/or hurt and help him strategize how to expand his network. The people I have known over the years who were truly knocked down in life in adulthood and struggled to ever get back up were mostly those led extremely charmed lives. They never had to learn rejection/failure/betrayal/exclusion or whatever in childhood and the things that kept them down were things that by adulthood barely registered for so many of us when we faced them because we had life experience and could bounce back.[/quote]
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