Enrichment classes, after-school activities, tutoring, not to mention the gentle prodding of parents - all may count in giving a child that extra academic edge. But parents still puzzle over what the right mix is to make their children excel in school. It turns out that the missing ingredient could be the friends a child keeps, specifically their in-school friends, the ones who sweat the same tests and homework and complain about the same teachers, rather than those they may make outside of school. UCLA professor of psychiatry and senior study author Andrew J...
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