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[quote=Anonymous]I think it’s good to be social and polite (so, in OP’s example, yes keep going and inviting to bday parties, play dates, keep saying hi at bus stop). But it sounds like there is an offshoot of 3rd grade boy moms socializing in that neighborhood. That’s fine and normal. My son is in 3rd and beginning a year or so ago, I noticed moms and families broke off and no longer socialized as a big mass. Our kids do the same thing at school. In kindergarten, every classmate is a friend. By 3rd grade, there are kids your kid naturally feels they get along with better than other, maybe because they know each other from teams, have similar personalities, or just gravitate toward each other for whatever reason.

I am an introvert who tends to be friends with these kinds of extroverted mom group moms. I ALWAYS am polite about being included. So I cheerfully say “Hope you’re bbq is fun! Want to get the kids together sometime next week.” I don’t invite myself or mope that I wasn’t. If a neighborhood friend mentions a play date, I wish her well and move on. Sometimes if I get an invite like “Jimmy and his mom are coming over, if Larlo wanted to come,” I ALWAYS say that’s nice but I don’t want to bust into their play date and so on. If the mom invites a second time and seems really genuine, I might accept. I have a neighbor who never invites me to events and I’m fine with that. I still invite her kid for play dates and still say hi at parties. I’ve decided she doesn’t want to socialize with me and that’s fine.[/quote]

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