
I recently came to a realization that girls cannot play as a group of three. Three is a really bad number. It always ends up in two vs. one. The one being left out quickly becomes a drama queen. Parents speak with them, sometimes they see our point, and one being left out finally merges back into the two. As soon as you start feeling like smiling, you see the other one is being left out. I have never seen this pattern with my son, so it came pretty shocking to me. Being miserable, they either cry hard or keep saying to each other, "You are so mean!" with arms crossed in the chest. It seems like we parents need to just hang on until this phase passes.