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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Popular exists only in the minds of parents. This shouldn't even be on your radar, OP.

These days, teens find like-minded friends no matter how quirky. The extroverted will perhaps give off the aura of being "popular", since they smile and talk with everyone, but everyone, most of all themselves (!), know how fleeting and superficial that is.

Please focus your energies elsewhere.
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Not the OP, but this is completely incorrect.  I have a 13 yr. old daughter and she (and her friends) are very aware of who the "popular" kids are.  That's what they call them, in fact.  The "popular" girls (and boys) are the ones who skew promiscuous.  The girls wear incredibly short shorts (showing butt cheek) and show too much skin all over.  They are typically not very smart or nice and talk like Kim Kardashian.  They post inappropriate pictures of themselves at parties.  And no, the "popular" do not smile and talk with everyone - they stay very much to themselves and their own insular cliques.  Popular doesn't mean what you think it means these days.  And yes, this is what is reported by my daughter and her friends.  It's not just me, or "existing only the minds of parents."

I do agree that teens find like-minded friends.  My daughter is in what seems to be the "normal" group - not popular as defined above, but still plenty of friends (who don't act like the above descriptions).  [/quote]

Agree with PP 100%. [/quote]

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