How do I help my daughter make friends

Anon Imperfect Mum

How do I help my daughter make friends

Sisterhood, I need inspiration and ideas on how to help my gorgeous, cool and kind 13 year old daughter build her circle of friends.

Some background, we moved from NSW to WA a few years ago. She made a couple of friends in primary school here in WA. My daughter decided to buck the trend and go to a different high school to all of the girls until one of her friends parents decided to send their daughter to the same school as mine. We strongly encouraged our daughter to go out of her comfort zone and make new friends.

Meeting new girls has been quite difficult for my daughter. She’s cool, trendy, conservative and mature beyond her years. I think her maturity and conservatism has hindered her somewhat from being accepted by many of her peers. It also doesn’t help with her old primary school friends manipulating other girls from being friends with her.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions of activities or groups or tactics that I can try to get my daughter involved in to expose her to some good, kind kids (13/14 year olds)? A bonus if they are WA based activities.

Teenage years is a minefield at the best of times and it breaks my heart that it’s so much harder to navigate for them these days.

Thanks!

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Acting is great for confidence and meeting new kids. If she is interested in that, she can even pick up work when local productions get filmed there.

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Anon Imperfect Mum

Boxing, army cadets, police cadets, surfing, SUP, basketball, AFL

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