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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gathering last weekend for a colleague’s daughter. Normal looking and her mom has told me over the years she’s just a regular, average student and sort of shy, not terribly popular — not a boisterous type-A overachieving homecoming queen Elle Woods or anything.

Apparently she can turn it “on” for large gatherings because we were blown away how she worked the crowd of 300+ people coming and going, and when we left, she ran out to our car to personally thank us. Charming, warm, eye contact, quick little stories and then gracefully moved on.

I told her mom this week how lovely her daughter was and how she ran out to say bye and thank you to us. She said everyone was saying the same and that she made sure to personally do that for all 300+ guests!

I’m asking because I’m jealous. Our daughter is a great student and outgoing but absolutely nothing like that. Do parents actually teach their teens to behave this way and turn it “on” in a large gathering?[/quote]

Catholic school? Catholic school kids seem to have above average self-confidence, social skills and comfort in their own skin.[/quote]

My hunch as well, both from the size of the event for a kid and Catholic school kids and families tend to be gregarious.[/quote]

Especially Irish Catholics.  The gift of gab.  [/quote]

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