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[quote=Anonymous]When my child was much younger and going in a lot of random play dates, I always asked about weapons. And when we hosted, I would let people know up front that we didn’t have guns and (at the time) didn’t have any prescription medications.

Then we went through all the Covid stuff (lived somewhere with really strict rules that made people crazy at either ends of the spectrum) and people proactively shared all kinds of things about who they were that took the pressure off worrying about who they secretly were. We weeded out a couple of super crazy families and it was probably good that my child didn’t get intertwined with them when she was in k and 1st.

Now my child is 9 and has a really small social circle whose parents I all know well (like have been through multiple tragedies as a community well). And she has a wider circle of sports friends, but we spend a ridiculous amount of time with those families not by choice so at least I know where they’re coming from. That group has strong, positive social norms that tend to weed out people at the extremes of personality or beliefs.

I realize that as DD transitions to middle school in a couple of years, I’ll have to have these conversations again. [/quote]

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