Parent Pause
Your child doesn’t need lots of friends
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What if we’ve become a little too interested in how many friends our children have?
I hear parents say this all the time: “I’m worried because she only has one good friend.”Only one.As though one close friendship could somehow be considered a failure.
In this Parent Pause, I’m thinking about the difference between popularity and belonging, why being alone isn’t the same as being lonely, and…