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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We made a few friends at pre-school but those didn't survive the move to ES. Some of our closest friends are parents whose kids were in the same Cub Scout den with our kid. The first few years of Cub Scouts, parents are asked to stay and help with the meetings. You get to know the other parents because you are hanging out together on a weekly basis. Our Den had somewhat regular "field trips" as a group, so you were hanging out together. And then there were the fall and spring camp outs where you are hanging out at the fire and during the day.

We did not find sports or other activities led to my kid developing new friends, the kids were only on the same team for 2-3 months and all they did was that sport, there was not much time for socializing. Parents were dropping kids off and leaving so there wasn't much time to get to know the parents. Same for other activities.

I would guess that travel sports would be similar to Scouts because you are together for more time and there is more time to talk and get to know each other.

Most people find friends at Church or the pool, places where there is time to talk and hang out while the kids are doing their thing when there are social events. [/quote]

We are still friends with a few friends from preschool. My oldest’s best friend from preschool is still friends in high school despite going to different elementary and now different high schools. We used to sign up for the same camps and soccer team in early elementary. We are also still friends with my middle child’s preschool best friends’ parents and kids are still friends also. We have traveled together with these people, celebrated adult birthdays. We still celebrate adult birthdays even though the kids don’t invite one another to their own birthday celebrations. They have their own friend groups in high school and they didn’t go to the same schools after preschool.

We also made a lot of friends during scouts. My two boys did cub scouts and my youngest is currently in Girl Scouts. We are still adult friends with both my boys den leaders and I’m a leader for my daughter’s current troop. [/quote]

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