We moved to a new small city. My 10 year old has been rejected from the local clique of girls who are the cool girls and have known each other years. They pretend she doesn't exist. So my daughter has made friends with some of the other kids...unfortunately these kids are seem to be socially awkward, are often disheveled, dinto seem terribly bright, etc. I've seen some of their houses and play dates there are out of the question which leaves me to host...and the kids are rude and gross and annoying. But I don't want my child to have no friends. Currently listening to the little girl who came for a sleepover cough and sneeze over everything...I mean who drops their obviously sick and germ infested child for a sleepover?! And then the child ate half a pizza, insisted on her own bag of popcorn and went to my cupboard for a second dessert after I gave each child one already? It is a small town...hopefully when she goes to middle school and our town combines with another nearby town the pool of friends will open. In the meantime...annoying friends?...or no friends? The cool moms have rejected me as well...I am not invited when they do things and they don't accept my invites. I am an introvert anyway but it is still nice to have friends in a new place and I want my kid to have friends...but why are her only choices the kids who are polite to adults but rude to her (and who are smart and clean)...no friends...or the unkempt, weirdo kids? My kid is smart, kind, polite...she deserves at least one friend who is just as awesome...