Comments on: Meeting new people, making friends

By: spyderkl

spyderkl — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:59:04 +0000

Yes, absolutely! In fact, the one thing I was worried about was that School Girl (almost 7 1/2) would be the oldest kid there. She wasn’t – in fact, she made a new friend. Her friend is almost 7, and her brother turned…9, I think, last weekend. I think that their events on the weekends have quite a few kids older than that.

Thank you! I really wish that I could write more about the other thing – in fact, I’m dying to at least make one anonymous phone call – but I made a promise not to make a nightmarish situation even worse. So.

By: ohwilleke

ohwilleke — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:20:35 +0000

Is the parenting group anything that would be appropriate for parents of late elementary school aged kids?

Also, wishing you the best in whatever is coming up (per year post following this one).

By: spyderkl

spyderkl — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:57:55 +0000

Yeah, it was far less scary than I’d thought.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:06:07 +0000

A little tribe nearby. That’s great.

I share your reluctance to meet new people. I’m not especially shy, but meeting and relating to new folks can be exhausting for me. I sometimes joke with Hombre that I want a portable sign that says “Closed.”

That said, your post is a fine example of why it’s good to come out of the shell every now and then.