When Your Daughter Loses Her Friend Group (you can't fix it for her)

What do you do when your middle schooler loses her friend group and there is absolutely nothing you can do to make the lunch table go back to the way it was? In this episode of Middle Years, I answer a mom whose eighth-grade daughter has been left out and is heartbroken. We talk about: why friendship loss in middle school is real griefthe difference between the social problem and the story your child may start telling herself about what it meanswhy “I got left out” can quietly become “I am le...