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Tough one. Are you friends with other of her sports parents? by veets

Maybe invite the families over to help any budding friendships with the kids?

We had a similar situation with our oldest daughter (now 23)--she was a little older. 13 I think. Whenever we saw some questionable behavior by her "friend" we talked to her about it. "How did you feel when X did that?" "Is that something a good friend would do?" Stuff like that.

The "head strong" part sounds like our youngest (now 19). We had to use a lot of reverse psychology with her. If we suggested she go in one direction, she would go in the other. The good part about her being head strong was that it was hard for her questionable friends to influence her in a bad way. She did what was right (most of the time). Maybe key on that part of your daughter's personality--praise the good decisions.