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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents can’t win. If we offer up some pizza, we are socially engineering our kids. If we let them roam, we aren’t involved enough.[/quote]

Offering some pizza and hosting is perfectly fine, just let your kid decide who to invite and stick with who they invited. It should be a day for the kids IMO - not for the parents. [/quote]

This is a tween/teen forum. Teenagers make their own friends. [b]Parents are not involved. [/b]Do the parents of left out kids think parents are somehow the ones trying to leave out their kid???

There are so many groups. With girls, there definitely seems to be a pretty popular type group and if you are not pretty or have a charismatic personality, they may not want you around. Same for the nerdy band kid. There are kids who play football and basketball and then the kids who are in marching band. Very different crowds. [/quote]

Why?  The kids are not orphans.

Yes. I think that the parents get their jollies when their children ditch other kids. [/quote]

These parents act like they have to walk on egg shells around their fragile kids whose social lives can not be known, questioned, or commented on. Like they have strangers living in their homes who do as they please when they are actually dependent minors they are fully responsible for.[/quote]

Wut? Which orifice did you pull that out of?  :lol: 
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Oh, found the parent too scared to talk to their own kid. [/quote]

Do you really go around making up these baseless, random narratives about people?

Weird. [/quote]

What? It’s so obvious. People do not want to talk to their kids. They don’t want to do the work. Lots of kids are being little a-holes and their parents have their heads in the sand. Do you often dump your friends last minute for better plans? Why is it ok for your kid to do that? You’re neglecting your job as a parent of a young teen. Do better.[/quote]

You have no idea what other parents are doing or not doing. Stop judging people based on your fictional version of them.

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I have two teens. They mention who they are hanging out with. There are definitely some kids from elementary that seem to be on the periphery of the group and not normally in their core group for hang outs. Sometimes they have a new kid who is a friend of a friend. I don’t ask them when Bobby from elementary cub scouts or your friend from 4th grade was not invited for Halloween.[/quote]

So if they were going with bobby, and you know because you actually asked them the plan was in advance, but then suddenly said Bobby wasn’t going anymore it simply wouldn’t occur to you to ask why not? Like what happened with OPs kid?There are a lot of really uninvolved clueless parents out there apparently.[/quote]

That is not what happens. My kid has a core group of friends of 5. Bobby is not in this group. Over the years, I may ask my son if he sees Bobby and ds May say he had no classes with him or that he doesn’t see him. I haven’t asked about Bobby in high school. I did ask about Bobby in middle school and Bobby came to my son’s birthday party in 7th grade.[/quote]

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