Questions tagged [friends]
Questions related to a child's friends, including making friends, maintaining relationships, disagreements with friends, etc.
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My child's best friend's parent thinks my child is a bad influence
I have a middle schooler who is a nice but very introverted kid. She's smart, never gets in trouble at school, is nice to the kids who don't have a lot of friends, and is generous. Because of her ...
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Son’s friends circle has gone to zero
Our son is 23 and still living at home. He is planning to leave the house next year and rent an apartment. He used to have a lot a friends and girlfriends too, but since the COVID epidemic in 2021 he ...
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Etiquette for asking separated parents for a playdate?
My young daughter wants to invite a friend at school over for a playdate whose parents I haven't met. I want to email the other parents to invite them, but in the school directory they have different ...
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How to help my child make online video friends?
My son is seven and bilingual.
Japan has a lot of COVID paranoia so children can't meet after school. Currently he does get play in person at his after school English program but we can't afford to ...
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My son’s friend suddenly stopped playing with him
My son is 5 years old.
He met his best friend in preschool. They know each other for 1 year. They are very very good friends, they play together everyday at school. For school holiday, they talk to ...
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How to tell my son to uninvite a friend without lying or giving the real reason?
I'm a single mother raising a son. My son is 17 years old and is planning a small week-long vacation to Las Vegas. He is bringing just his close gay male friends from high school on the trip. My son ...
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My son was in bed with his friend without any clothes. What should I do? [closed]
I found my son in bed with his best friend (male) naked during a sleepover. I woke up at the middle of the night and went to go see if they were asleep and found them. What should I assume? Should I ...
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How to politely decline a playdate invitation due to safety concerns?
A person has invited our child to come play with her daughter.
We know little about her but we do know unfortunately her husband is currently temporarily forcefully kicked out of the home as he has ...
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My 3 year old boy is upset when his friend doesn't want to play with him
We have a 3 year old boy and we send him to kindergarten on a full session. He recently got good friends on his kindy. Because of the impact of jungle book, he sometimes trying to walk like a mancub (...
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How do I express my feelings about my 15-year-old daughter's rude boyfriend?
My 15-year-old daughter always has her boyfriend around the house and I don't like the way he talks to her and my family, as the man of the house I would like to show that I am dominant and show that ...
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How to make my pre-schooler stop trying to make his friends follow the instructions given to him?
My son is 3 years and 8 months old. He starts to cry when any of his friends in school makes any mistake. For example, if his friends make any mistake in writing, he starts to cry. If his friends are ...
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Did I screw up when allowing my 12-year-old to invite only one twin to her party?
My 12-year-old daughter is an only child. A few months ago, she had her first birthday party to which both boys and girls were invited. She chose a neighborhood restaurant to have a small dinner.
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How to improve my 3-year-old's social interaction, as she does not play with other kids?
My 3-year-old does not play with other kids and in all the parties just linger around us (mom/dad). Even if the party is with her own class mates from school and she knows them a lot.
I have tried ...
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How to help a shy 6-year-old make friends?
I have a 6-year-old son. He's the oldest, and we moved from the US to the UK three years ago. He's in Y2 (second grade), and is one of the younger children in his class. There are 35 kids in his grade/...
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12 years old - school related things
My 12 years old is very active and happy child but sometimes worries a lot. Recently the boy who he use to get along with for some reason started to bad mouthing him to other kids from school saying ...
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How to help my 7-year-old son socialize in school and learn to fight for his rights?
My son is 7 years old. He's very polite, shy, sensitive and honest. Unlike other kids in his class who tend to be more selfish and mean. I wonder why don't they like to play with him. Although he's ...
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How to teach 5-year old to value friendship?
My son is almost 5 years old. There are two other boys in the neighborhood: Z is 5 months younger than him, and S is 10 years old. Both are very nice and well-behaved kids.
We moved to this complex 5 ...
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How to deal with children going to friend's houses to bypass rules
In our house, as with most households I assume, there are lots of rules that we decided on, which might not be agreed upon by other families. Our son is 9 at the moment.
For example, to prevent video ...
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I found a video on my 8-year-old girls tablet where her same aged girl friend asks her to show her private areas. And she does. What should I do?
They are good friends since they were 4. Last weekend at a play date at my house they were playing with my girls tablet, making toys videos (just for fun, not uploading them anywhere), filming the ...
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Can a “magic answer box” backfire? Is it ok?
I’m a fresh father (4 months old daughter) and I’m sometimes visualising the future.
I was thinking of implementing a system for when she’ll be a little older (7+ years old) in which:
she posts a ...
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How can I ensure my 14-year old's safety on a major trip away from home?
Brace yourselves, it's going to be a long one... I hope this is an acceptable question here; if not I wonder if the Interpersonal Skills board might take it?
TL;DR: My 14-year old daughter wants to ...
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My son plays alone and is not interested in making friends. How can I help him?
I have a 3-year-old son. From his birth, I tried to keep mobile away and restrict him to very limited TV. I play with him whenever I find the time. We play block games, making zoo with animals, ...
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How to deal with my 13-year-old son's friend, who makes me feel uncomfortable?
I am 38-year-old mother to a 13-year-old son. He is close friends with a boy (let's call him Alex).
I have noticed earlier Alex behaving weirdly before me like complimenting me on my looks, things I ...
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Are there ways to help a gifted child find a best friend?
I have a very sweet 7 year old son who is struggling with making friends and specifically he wants a best friend. He has opportunity to see kids often but cannot seem to click with anyone and really ...
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How to encourage my 7 year old to move on from her preschool friend?
My daughter, we'll call Beth, had a close friend, we'll call Alice, who was in the same daycare/preschool from ages 6 months through just before 5 years old. Alice lives in the next town over, so once ...
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6 year old daughter's friend chronically mean to my 7 year old daughter
My 7 and 6 year old daughters (Alyssa and Alex respectively) are very loving, caring and generally considerate toward one another. Notwithstanding normal little spats and being highly competitive and ...
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Should my children steer clear of the "bad kids"?
My kids are 9 and 7, boy and girl, respectively. They're nice, spunky, forgiving, and open-minded. They're hardly perfect; they're also sassy, sarcastic, and demanding.
Because of their willingness ...
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My friend's kids are a bad influence on my children
My husband and I have a couple friend who has two children ages 5 (boy) and 2.5 (girl).
We have a 3.5-year-old son and a 20-month-old girl.
The two families get together quite often. The parents ...
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How can I motivate a 13-year-old girl to take better care of her appearance?
Unlike most of the teenagers, my 13-year-old niece doesn't care about her appearance at all. She does what is necessary hygiene - shover, teeth brushing - but not a bit more.
She wears sweatpants and/...
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What is a good approach for asking friends in a sensitive situation to be legal guardians?
We have a 1-year-old child. We've decided to ask two friends of ours to be the legal guardian of our child (i.e. godparents). By "legal guardian/godparent", I'm meaning that, in the case of our death, ...
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My 9 year old saw an R rated movie
My 9 year old son recently made a new friend who lives in our neighborhood. My wife and I like the friend and are happy that our son is being more social.
Apparently, there are very few rules at the ...
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My daughter's friend faked having cancer - our daughter found out via Facebook and is devastated. What do we do?
Our daughter Angela (not her real name), who's 15, showed us a Facebook message she received from her friend Lauren (not her real name), who's 15, it said basically that Lauren had been faking having ...
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Neighbor's child is trying to spend all her time with us
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My wife and I recently moved into a town-house apartment in a large complex. We have a Husky pup that my wife walks twice a day (she's a stay-at-home) and the dog attracts lots of ...
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Kids are yelling over the fence
My kids and the neighbor's kid are all in the same kindergarten group. Despite having plenty of interaction there, they seek even more contact. That's not bad in itself, of course, but it's annoying ...
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How to help my 5-year-old when other children don't want to play with him?
My 5-year-old is in Kindergarten. I work at home and I pick him up from the bus stop every day.
Everyday, the first thing out of his mouth after school is, "Can I have a play date with so and so (...
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My son's friends suddenly prefer to play without him. Should I get involved or let the kids sort this out?
My son is eight and is in third form of elementary school. He is friendly, social, generous, fun, and popular among both his class mates and their parents. But recently there is a saddening ...
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My 9-year-old son tries to force himself into a group of friends after being rejected and is pushed over. How to help him build character?
I have a 9-year-old son. He is a lovely, sweet person with a great fondness for his friends. He is emotional, emphatic, smart and overall a nice kid.
Today I learned that he is getting himself into ...
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Problems with my son's friend
My son's 11 year old (male) friend, whom I will call Mike for the sake of discussion, is loud and rude.
At the beginning of the school year, Mike asked me if I was willing to drive him home ...
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My 5-year-old's friend's parent doesn't like my child and I fear it might isolate my child after a while
When my son was 2 he went through a biting stage which was fairly traumatic for us and I guess for the parents of those he was biting. We worked through it with the daycare and over a period he ...
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My son is being hit by a friend, and we need to discuss the situation with his mom
I have two kids, an 8-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter--second grade and first grade, respectively. They are both tiny. My son is only 46 pounds.
A child entered my daughter's first-grade class....
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Choosing same name as a friend, how to ask or annonce?
So there's a name that we liked for our baby but I have a childhood distant friend having the same name.
Would she (yeah its a she) be offended if we name our baby after her? How do I approach or ...
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Should my twins play with other children?
My 5 year old twin sons have been at their new school for four months now, and they have made no friends. This is down to their own actions, at school they will only play with each other and want ...
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My son doesn't want to play with a boisterous neighbour. What do I say and do?
We have neighbours who have a son and daughter a similar age to my son (10) and daughter (7). The daughters get on well but my son finds the boisterous boy too much. I would like to be able to tell my ...
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How do I get my child to eat healthier, better and more varied?
I have a ten-year old child and it's about that time in their lives when she is constantly getting invited to stay over at other friends' houses either for the weekend or a night. To be honest, as a ...
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One of two children invited to a mutual friends birthday party
Our family has just combined and moved to a new town a month ago. We have three children, a 13 year old boy and 10 and 9 year old girls. The 9 year old is my daughter and the 13 and 10 year olds are ...
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Is it acceptable to ask summer camp administration to give other campers' families our contact information?
Our child had to miss the very last week of summer camp due to illness. Unfortunately, that last week was the time period when we planned to have the child ask their newly acquired friends for their ...
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How can I explain to my 4 year old that his friend has moved away?
My 4 year old son has a good friend who is a foster child. She was being fostered (with two siblings) by a couple who lived not far from us and we were just beginning to get friendly with this family, ...
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Helping a preschooler be a good friend
My almost-four year old boy has been expressing concerns recently that some of his close friends don't want to be his friend any more. While I'm aware this sort of drama is perpetual in childhood, I ...
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How to handle separation from former classmates at the start of a new term, when your child was the only one in a different class?
My 6 year old just started first grade, but to our surprise he was assigned to a different class from his former (from last year) classmates.
The ones that did not transfer schools at least, but he ...
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How to help 7yo boy who lost his best friend (relocation far away)?
Our 7 year-old son has a 6 year-old girl friend and the 2 were really very close friends - one heart and one soul.
Now she's moving for 3 years to another country (very far away) and the evening ...
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