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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Your job as aparent is to know what’s going on in your daughters life and the reason she drop the friend.   Often children are not forthcoming right when the event happens but will disclose after a few days or weeks if you’re receptive  Please  realize how cruel this is to that one child and encourage your child to morally and ethically stand by someone who is shunned 
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I disagree completely. Your job as a parent is to model ethical behavior and encourage them to behave ethically and morally. It is not your job to know all the ups and downs of their various friendships. I went through middle school drama once, and have no desire to go through it a second time vicariously. [/quote]

You want your kid to be strong coming out of middle school, so you have to know what's going on. As a parent, you have to teach your kid that just as the internet lives on forever, each kid with whom you associate reflects on you. If a kid is awkward, you in turn are awkward for hanging out with that kid. If a kid is dorky, you are dorky.

That's death in middle and high school.

Don't create damage you don't need. Be the kid who has lots of friends, who gets invited to the parties, who has a great time. That makes you socially acceptable as a boyfriend or girlfriend. It gets you good teacher recommendations. It gets you big applause when your name is called at high school graduation.

Save being a dork for grad school or law school. Don't be one now. Be well-rounded.[/quote]

This is like my middle school brain to a T (late middle school/ early high school). By middle of high school, I had matured out of this and the weird lure of "popularity" faded away (which is good since I was never going to be popular).  That was age 16.  I thought everyone left this behind at about 16 and now wants something better than this for our kids?[/quote]

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