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Med’s Eileen Anderson says to keep an eye on your child if they are having trouble keeping friends

What is typical behavior? An age by age guide
Verywell FamilyEileen Anderson, director of education in bioethics and medical humanities at the School of Medicine, said that if your preteen or teen is having trouble keeping friends or seems to be getting in trouble at school a lot, you may want to investigate. “You don’t see these issues until middle school because the workload was not heavy enough until then,” she said.