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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wondering about the moms who dwell on this stuff, and why they see nothing wrong with their fixations?  [/quote]

My children are too young for homecoming but I guess parents want their kids to be happy and some kids are shy or don’t reach out or don’t have those social networks that some other kids have mostly from their parents. Be honest at certain schools the parents who are friends from their clubs plan events so I could see other parents feeling left out. No, my kids usually have plans so I’m not talking about me but that doesn’t mean I don’t have empathy for those families that maybe don’t know other people or often get forgotten.[/quote]

Homecoming age is high school - teens.  At that point, DC *should* be choosing their own friends, regardless of who their parents spend time with (or not). I nor my friends hang out with their DC's friend's parents, nor do most in our rather large high school.  I have never heard of the parents intermingling with their friends' parents.  Instead, parents usually make their own friends, independent of their children, as far as I know.  It does not seem healthy to intermix DC's friends and their parents and us together, frankly.  I am sure they are fine people, but we make our own friends, and encourage DC to do the same. It is a life long skill that DC needs, and I am DC's parent, so that is my job  to teach DC how to make their own friends, and keep them.

High school friendships ebb and flow, and if Larlo and Larla aren't talking this week, I am certainly not getting wrapped up in their teen drama (usually who sat next to whom for lunch period); because next week they will be getting along fine - unless a parent steps in and ruins any possibility of that!  Why on earth would parents not see something so obvious, especially if they "need" to be so socially astute - and "need" to police their DCs social calendar? That would be base level Sociology 101 - *not* interfering!  Why is that not obvious?[/quote]

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