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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes for sure. [b]Middle school is when it is cool to hang out at the mall. By high school, it isn't really cool anymore.[/b]

They wander the stores, try on ridiculous outfits their parents would never let them buy, they look at edgy t shirts / shoes. They get a smoothie or a coffee, they chit chat.

Occasionally we had minor issues but those were just teachable moments. Once they started playing tag / hide and go seek or some kind of game where they were running through the mall. Got in trouble with security. Another time someown with them shoplifted a small item from Ardene's. didn't get caught but my DD wasn't sure what to do. A thirs time two friends coupled off and left the group and went odf their own and rhe resr of the kids didn't know where they were, didn't want to leave their friends. In allcases we just talked through the scenarios and they were good learning moments.

I didn't stay at the mall the while time. I typically came back early and would walk around 10-15 minutes before pick up time. Never saw anything that was concerning.[/quote]

+1. Can confirm (at least in the 90s) the cool thing was to go to the mall when in middle school. They're finally "old" enough to be without parents doing "cool" things and feeling sooo "mature".

Let your middle schoolers get this out of their system. [/quote]

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