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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe stop looking for friends at your children’s school and seek friendships organically wherever they happen. I don’t understand why so many people think their kids school is a friendship warehouse. [/quote]

I don't think anyone thinks school is a "friendship warehouse."

I think parenting occupies a lot of our time and when kids go to elementary you are thrown together with a bunch of other families and people instinctually look to form relationships with at least some of them to make it more comfortable. In the same way that kids starting school look to create friendships or how if you start a new job you will look for one or two people to become "work friends" with. It makes the social aspect of having kids at a school easier and more comfortable when you even just have one familiar face or one or two people you can comfortable chat with during events.

I imagine being new to the country would exacerbate this problem because you might not have other friends due to having moved here more recently and not having grown up or gone to college here. While I totally understand the desire to develop friendships with at least a few other parents at your kids' school (and relate to how this can be challenging at times) I have lived in DC for nearly 30 years and have a decent number of both close friends and friendly acquaintances in this area so I'm not looking to fill my social card with parents from school. OP doesn't have that advantage so it's reasonable that she'd be more frustrated by the challenges of developing social bonds at the school.[/quote]

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