Understanding Social Fatigue and Changing Dynamics It Happens Every Year — and It’s Not Random By spring, many parents and teachers start to notice a shift. Kids lose friends in the Spring, but why? Friends who were inseparable in the fall are suddenly distant. Playground groups change. Lunch tables rearrange themselves. Small conflicts feel bigger than they did a few months ago. It can be confusing — and concerning — especially when nothing obvious  seems to have happened. B