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Do you know others who try to buy friends for their children?
Does it work?
I know a family that does...the mom is a girl scout leader and she spends extensively on her troop, and wants her child to be friends with others in the troop. I don't know much more than that but it kinda bugs me in a way...we do not try to buy friends for our kids.
Do you know others who try to buy friends for their children?
Does it work?
I know a family that does...the mom is a girl scout leader and she spends extensively on her troop, and wants her child to be friends with others in the troop. I don't know much more than that but it kinda bugs me in a way...we do not try to buy friends for our kids.
Obviously I don't know the details, but from this thumbnail description the mother sounds more like a stage mom than someone who is trying to buy friends for her daughter. Wanting her daughter to be friends with her troop-mates is common and normal. Spending a lot of money on the troop, while less common and normal, isn't necessarily indicative of anything particularly sinister.
As to the original question, I don't know anyone who has tried it. I would think that it wouldn't work. You might be able to get superficial companionship that way, but if someone doesn't like a person, getting paid by that person's parent is not going to make you like them better.
When I was in high school, I had a fair number of acquaintances and casual friends, but only one really close friend. The joke between us, then and now, is that my father had to pay him to be my friend. (I guess my dad must have paid pretty well, because we've been friends going on 35 years now.)
Do you know others who try to buy friends for their children?
Does it work?
I know a family that does...the mom is a girl scout leader and she spends extensively on her troop, and wants her child to be friends with others in the troop. I don't know much more than that but it kinda bugs me in a way...we do not try to buy friends for our kids.
Girl Scouts does make girls into friends by buying things for the troop. It is a principle of girl scouts that they should be a friend to every scout. Spending extensively on the troop - how? Do the girls or parents pay dues? Do they have a troop account that she spends from? In general the troop leader should not be spending a lot of her own money though she may spend some. What is she spending money on? Usually field trips are paid for by parents (though some girls may get *scholarship aid* if they cannot afford this).
Do you know others who try to buy friends for their children?
Does it work?
I know a family that does...the mom is a girl scout leader and she spends extensively on her troop, and wants her child to be friends with others in the troop. I don't know much more than that but it kinda bugs me in a way...we do not try to buy friends for our kids.
Yeh...it works.
The (bought) kids will hang out with them cause they know there's something in it for them.
Moms not really buying their friendship though...just some of their time.
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