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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again...I do let her roam the neighborhood, but people aren't often home.  Plus we live sort of at the edge of the neighborhood so she would have to roam for miles to find a good concentration of kids.  I used to tell her just to call people but no one ever picks up their landlines, so that's really inefficient.  She doesn't have her own cell phone so I end up texting other parents at her request to try to set things up.  I really dislike being the intermediary but I also don't want to give her a cell phone yet.

[b]I think a lot of the girls that walk home set up "play dates" more naturally, but it's harder when you're a bus rider, as the school requires a note from home in advance to deviate from usual discharge instructions.  [/b]

Plus add on the usual 5th grade girl drama and it's really just all beyond me.  I don't think my being insufficiently chatty is the problem.  My whole life people have been telling me I'm too chatty.   I think maybe I was insufficiently helicopterish back in the earlier grades, when these friendships were all being established, and I was of the view that's wasn't going to administer her social life.  Now I wish I had done more back in the years when all the moms were doing that.[/quote]

Just as many playdates are set up on the bus or walking home from the bus stop. And is writing a note really that hard? It isn't for us, so to have my child take the bus to their friends is easy for us. [/quote]

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