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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Might be just a difference of culture between you and some of the other families. For example you said your kid loves video games, and we discourage friendships with kids like that because we’d much rather our kids do other things.[/quote]

Oh wow. My kids play about 16 hours of sports a week (elementary school) and are outside with friends a lot, upper elementary and have great grades. They play video games. Who cares? [/quote]

NP - I think this poster is correct that for them it is a culture clash. At 10 I don’t engineer my kids’ friendships anymore - he becomes friends with whomever he likes - but I definitely don’t reach out a ton to helicopter parents. We are working on age appropriate independence here. I find it hard because when we were younger, everyone had a home phone so you learned to call, ask politely for your friend then invite them over. My kids don’t have phones, so any plans require texting amongst parents and if someone is occupied it can make last minute plans difficult.[/quote]

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