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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents can’t win. If we offer up some pizza, we are socially engineering our kids. If we let them roam, we aren’t involved enough.[/quote]

Offering some pizza and hosting is perfectly fine, just let your kid decide who to invite and stick with who they invited. It should be a day for the kids IMO - not for the parents. [/quote]

This is a tween/teen forum. Teenagers make their own friends. [b]Parents are not involved. [/b]Do the parents of left out kids think parents are somehow the ones trying to leave out their kid???

There are so many groups. With girls, there definitely seems to be a pretty popular type group and if you are not pretty or have a charismatic personality, they may not want you around. Same for the nerdy band kid. There are kids who play football and basketball and then the kids who are in marching band. Very different crowds. [/quote]

Why?  The kids are not orphans.

Yes. I think that the parents get their jollies when their children ditch other kids. [/quote]

I am probably the most inclusive parent there is. When kids were younger, I invited the entire class. Then I invited all the boys from both classes. My boys always played with other boys and not girls. In 6th grade, I made my kid invite all the boys, even boys he didn’t talk to.

There is no everyone in middle school. That middle school boy went trick or treating with one friend. At some point, 10 boys were hanging out in my driveway.

My older teenage son had 12-13 friends over and I had zero input on who he was having over.[/quote]

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