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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 15-year-old DS is in flux. He's about to enter HS.
Kids he grew up with in elementary and middle seemed to have splintered into two camps -- kids who are sneaking ouvaping, defacing property (seriously, two kids he knows well were just arraigned in court for this), or else have super niche interests like D&D, which don't appeal to my kid.

I am not saying my child is an angel but he's really not interested in staying out til all hours and vaping (and I'd like to think we've dissuaded him from this anyway), but he's also not into the things that the non-party kids enjoy. The result is that he's struggling to find kids who are on his wavelength and he ends up spending a lot lot of time when he's not at sports practice hanging out alone.

Can anyone else relate? Does this improve with age?[/quote]

My DD is 17. Popular, cheerleader, hangs out with athletes. She and her friends like going to parties but in her friend group and most of the people they hang out with, barely anyone vapes. It's actually looked down upon. There's drinking (she rarely does) but no one is getting stupid embarassingly drunk. I know she's older but this has always been the case.  We're at MCPS. Sounds like your kid needs to find new friends- defacing property- seriously? Tell your kid to find better friends. THere are plenty of them out there. [/quote]

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