Two boys met beside a lake. It took no more than a shared love of throwing stones and jumping of a wharf for them to become friends. Image: Su Leslie 2008
Posted to Ragtag Daily Prompt | friendship
Why are kids so good at making new friends?
Zimmerbitch
age is just a (biggish) number
Zimmerbitch 
Kids have no preconceived notions of what a person should be like. That’s my guess, Su.
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I think you are right 😀
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Oh, to be so in the moment!
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Yeah. Made me want to throw the to-do list away and spend the day at the beach. Then the rain arrived 🤨
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Ah, back to wellies and a good book
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Just not at the same time.
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Children have a magical way of connecting. We could learn something from them.
Leslie
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I totally agree Leslie 😀
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I think Peter is right. A lovely image of your little redhead (if that is who is in the photo) such breathtaking scenery. I’m really bad at making friends as I am not a joiner and I have moved so many times during my lifetime that I have always felt very transient. And once the kids have left home and you stop working it is hard to meet new people. Or maybe that’s just me.
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Not just you. I’m very much the same. And I worked from home for years, so the whole workmates thing isn’t there. I am also very introverted and find people quite exhausting after a while. When the boy was little I did try very hard to go to play groups and do the whole mum’s-together socialising thing, and actually I did make a couple of actual friends that way. But it’s definitely got more difficult in recent years.
And it is my little red in the shot. These days I struggle to get any photos of him, and Grandma keeps asking for one!!!
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Definitely not limited to you two! If the world had more Innocence and Trust in Good mightn’t it become a kinder, gentler place? ❤️ 💕 ❤️
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Must be why we gel so well on the blogs!
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It’s so true that we have less inhibitions when we are younger. As adults too many of us worry about what others think about us. My restaurant is next to a school and we all love to hear the excited yells at playtime. Why can’t adults feel so free?
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Watching my so grow up, I could see how over time kids stop being encouraging of each other and start to say negative things. And I think they are modelling how adults speak — teachers can be incredibly destructive of kids’ confidence 🙁
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You are so right. I don’t know if they realise or perhaps don’t care how damaging they can be. 😢
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A mixture of both probably. It’s amazing (and terrible) how, when you really listen to everyday speech, so much of it is negative. If I had a Forfar for every time I’ve begun a sentence with “the problem is …” — I could afford the therapy I so obviously need 😬
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A work colleague has just returned from a holiday in Indonesia and he said that despite the poverty and natural disasters encountered they are the happiest people he has met. We have a lot to learn 🤔
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I totally agree with that.
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Perhaps they live more in the moment than adults do. And they have less ‘other junk/stuff’ taking up their energy and time.
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Both very true.
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I think kids make playmates quickly, but real friends? I am not so sure.
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That’s a really good point. Some playmates definitely become friends though; my son has friends he is still very close to that’s he’s been hanging out with since they were at primary school.
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So do my daughters. My younger daughter’s best friend has been her best friend since before they could talk!
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