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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child is very social and extroverted, they are going to have a lot of elementary school friends who have bad teen-like habits. Maybe this is preferable to the opposite situation of a child who has few friends and thus is not exposed to a lot of objectionable behavior. I mean, look at all the threads of parents complaining that their kid "only" got 20 invitations to parties and playdates. Everybody is so status obsessed and obsessed with their child being popular, but then act pissed when it comes at the price of losing some Innocence. Sorry to say it, but unpopular and friendless children can hold onto that innocence for much much longer.[/quote]

My kid is a social and fairly extroverted 4th grader. Invited to friends’ houses at least once most weekends. She is part of a big group of girls that is friendly and well-liked; the closest thing the school has to a popular crowd in terms of being a big friend group, but not mean girls (every year kids who are new to the school join their group with no problem). She is at a DCPS public school and there is literally nothing like this. A handful of kids have iPhones, but it’s the kids who commute. There is no group chat at night and if any of the kids have access to social media, my kid has never mentioned it or asks to. Occasionally she borrows my phone to chat to a friend’s parent’s phone via text. There is almost no makeup other than the occasional experiment. Maybe a kid occasionally wears a short shirt, but it’s nothing consistently “sexy” and I’m sure the school’s loose uniform helps keep this at bay. Like I know all of this is coming at some point, but I genuinely see little sign of it so far.[/quote]

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