Friendships change as a person grows. A person's social group shifts from being near to being understood. This change is a normal part of growing up.
By Pawan Nayar · from the LLOS AI Learning record
Friendships change as a person grows.
A person's social group shifts from being near to being understood. This change is a normal part of growing up.
Friendships often change around age 10. Before this age, friends are often people who live or go to school nearby. Later, friends are people who understand each other. This change is like a 'great uncoupling'. Old friendships may end. New friendships begin. This process helps a person find out who they are. It is not a social failure. It is a social sorting process. A person moves from having 'friends of circumstance' to having 'friends of character'.
A student is 10 years old. The student's friends used to be all the children in the student's class. Now, the student feels different from some of those friends. The student starts to spend more time with new friends who share similar interests. This is the 'great uncoupling' happening.
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