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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There can be different norms esp in elementary school but as long as you are aware for them you can adjust. I do wish I had known more about this when my daughter was that age. She had friendships that didn’t last in the same way as friendships with children of her same racial backgrounds  and I think it was in part because I didn’t understand some of the different play date norms and work with them as much. For example, we did a lot of sleepovers and not everyone is comfortable with letting their third grader (especially girls) sleep over at another family’s house if they don’t know them well. Other families or cultures may be stricter about that or about going over to each other’s houses in a way I wasn’t aware of, so I assumed the child didn’t want to be friends, but their parents might just not have been comfortable with it. [/quote]

Some of this has nothing to do with race.  We didn’t do sleepovers.  Partly activities partly we didn’t know the parents asking or for those we did know, limited supervision.  [/quote]

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