QOTW: Your 10-14 yr old & their friends
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QOTW: Your 10-14 yr old & their friends
| Mon, 05-14-2007 - 8:45am |
QOTW--Is your 10-14 yr old friends with kids their same age(or grade), or do they tend to gravitate toward younger or older kids?

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I'd say 95% of her friends are in her Grade. She has a couple of girls on our street who are a couple of years younger she hangs out with when playing outside simply because the boys who are her age kind of gravitate together.
Connor is 13 and his friends range in age from 12-15. I am not friends with the parents. Friendly, but not friends.
stacy
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Andrew has one good friend and the rest are acquaintances.
My son's friends range in age from a few years older than him to a few years younger than him.
Linda
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Alex (16), Rachel (14), Matthew (12)
My girls play with kids mostly their own age. They play a lot togther and have some of the same friends since there is only 13 months between them. We don't have neighbors so neighborhood friends are not in the picture. They are very involved in activites at school and outside of school. Since they go to school in a very small town most of the kids are in the same activites. I have gotten to know some of the parents. Two different ones have been nice to have to take the girls places together since my husband works all the time. They are also SAHM and help me out when I have to be at work and something is going on. They'll take my girls from practice to their Dad's work if it's raining and they can't walk (Big help).
Being in a small town and not having grown up with the other parents made getting to know them a little harder. Some of them still look at us as outsiders after being here 11 years.
My girls have a couple of younger cousins who they play very well with. Same goes for my oldest who is 17 she has always done great with the smaller ones.
Tonya
Both kids' friends are their age. They both have a few friends that are older.
Most of the neighborhood kids are younger (WAY younger) but they both play with them outside.
Having been at the same school for 8 years (K-8) I know the parents of Hannah's friends extremely well. Some I consider good friends and others, not so much. Same with Nathan's friends, but unfortunately, I really don't like his best friends mom.
Karin
My 10 yo DS mostly hangs out with boys his age, but does have a couple of friends a year older and one a year younger. I am friends with a couple of the parents, but not all. The one thing they all have in common is that they're wild kids and DS is just the opposite! Consequently, I don't have his friends over as much as I should.
My almost-12 yo DD has a surprising number of adult friends (not creepy pedophile types, just normal mentor-types), as well as friends her age. Her best friend is this really quirky girl whom I just adore. Her mom is a real salt-of-the-earth type who has become my friend in the past two years. I'm friends with some of her other friends' parents as well.
Both kids play with the neighborhood children, who are all younger.
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