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[quote=Anonymous][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 out, vaping, 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]

Surely there are other kids who dont want to be troublemakers and act more kid like? I was that kid, no interest in smoking, drinking, partying ect. Luckily my neighborhood friends were the same and I had a good, small group of school friends the same too. And I went to a school where there seemed to be alot of troublemakers.[/quote]

My kids and their friends are "wholesome" in that they are not drinking/vaping/partying, but they are not "mainstream." They are into obscure films, music, and their school-related extracurricular activities are things like theater and D&D.

So, basically, I think you may be setting up a false dichotomy. Wholesome and mainstream are not the same, and in many cases the most wholesome kids are not the ones seeking or obtaining mainstream approval. [/quote]

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