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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd go sooner rather than waiting til the last minute. A big part of our social life in the burbs involves families we've met in rec activities. We've met more neighbors this way than almost any other way (except school). My youngest and now 3rd-grader has been on teams/done activities with many of the same children for 2 years now, so we've really built a village. That's harder as kids get older and rely on parents to get them to activities less.[/quote]

Meh. Those villages you built kind of disappear as kids get older and settle into friend groups that then change a few times.[/quote]

This is very true. The dynamic shifts when kids start driving the decision about who they want to spend time with versus their parents’ friends’ kids. Theres often a significant difference.
Can we also just retire the “village” messaging?! [/quote]

Yes but by that time the kids aren’t really hanging out with their parents’ friends anyway-they’re doing their own thing. But the “supportive, family-like friend group”  (or whatever you’d rather call the “village”, since you retired the term) of adults still exists. At least that’s how it’s been for us. [/quote]

This is what happened for us. The kids have other friends now, but the parents still hang out. The kids politely tolerate each other when we're together.[/quote]

+2. Why would you lose your friends just because your kids are making new ones?  It's actually easier to maintain these friendships as kids get older because you can meet up in the evenings while the kids are at home, or taking themselves to practice, etc.[/quote]

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