How parents can help kids overcome five common friendship hurdles
The eighth grade girl told psychologist Ryan DeLapp that a friend only interacted with her when she wanted help with an assignment.
“This person would sit next to her in class but wouldn’t sit with her at lunch,” said DeLapp, director of the REACH program at the Ross Center in New York City. “She felt used, but it took several months for her to create distance because she worried that the girl would call her mean.”