A parental role Parents and other adults can help make it happen. They are still pivotal figures in helping kids negotiate the social wilderness in late elementary and middle school, experts say. But we don't teach them the differences between anger, frustration and anxiety. Use this as a learning tool to discover what groups sit where and where your child thinks he fits in, Sagarese says. The cool group, structured along a hierarchy.
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Totals about one-third of school population. Hover around and mimic the popular set. About 10 percent. Middle Friendship Circles. Total about 45 percent-50 percent.