Reply to parents of unpopular kids - how do you stop feeling sad?

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "parents of unpopular kids - how do you stop feeling sad?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t care that my dd isn’t popular, but I do care that her best friend completely ditched her junior year of high school to try and get in with the popular crowd. She’s actually not having any fun and complains to dd about the struggle, but she’s happy about the pics she posts on Instagram with the popular girls. Dd humors her and still talks to her, but is totally over the friendship and has moved on to better people since this crap started. Why do girls do this garbage? Give up real friendships to look better on Instagram? High school image is absolutely nothing once you graduate, but they can’t see that yet. [/quote]

This kind of thing was happening long before Instagram. Social media intensifies it, but longing to run with the "popular crowd" is absolutely nothing new. You just had to go to the movies or the mall (or the soda shop, or the tea room, or wherever the hot spot was in that era) to make sure everyone saw you hanging out with the "right" people, rather than posting on Instagram. The biggest difference, I think, is that social media stuff WILL follow these kids after high school, and probably in negative ways more often than positive. But you're right that nobody in college is going to care who you hung out with in high school, and those shallower friendships won't survive the transition.

But it sounds like your DD has a good head on her shoulders, and is well out of the friendship. Good for her. Sounds like you've done a good job.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics