The “Other” Moms

Posted on April 4th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I once read a great article that discussed the cliques that form with playgroups. The article compared this to the same phenomenon in high school where certain leaders arise, some people just kind of follow along, and there [...]

 

Contributed by Tamsen Butler
Tags: making friends, playdates, social gathering
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