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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was growing up, we had a lot of family friends. My parents were friends with their parents. We would all get together and the kids were expected to play nice with each other, whether we "clicked" or not. We kids never became great friends but these friends were a different kind of friend and we learned to get along with people who weren't exactly like us. As adults we are still in touch and probably better friends now. These are life lessons that kids need to learn. When did it happen that kids get to dictate everyone in their world. Have a family bbq like PP suggested.[/quote]

+1000. Me too and some of these kids I did not like at all (boys!  Yuck. Older or younger.  Personalities didn't mesh.  Whatever)  but I learned to suck it up.  We are much better friends as adults.  We all sort of grew up together like relatives.  [/quote]

Yes, yes and yes! [/quote]

This. I grew up the same way. I'm so tired of people saying they would never make their kid play with someone different than them. No wonder there is such tension between groups who think differently. Parents set kids up for this type of segregated life from the start. My own family has so many differences. Kids are already segregated by grade nowadays as opposed to earlier generations where kids would play with whomever lived nearby and in one room schoolhouses. There's a difference between inviting someone over before school starts and inviting your 5 besties over for a sleepover.[/quote]

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