My friends kids give me their school pictures every year.
Of course. I did the same with my parents' friends, and now I often send the same people pictures of MY kids. Most of them have a bulletin board somewhere, with pictures of whoever and you-know-that-kid-one-of-tax-chick's. I exchange pictures with a couple of former bosses, too.
I don't know anything about Foley to be indicative of anything, but the specific quotes, to me, just indicate social politeness. There's this teenager, he's not *exactly* an employee, not *exactly* a relative-of-a-friend ... what, exactly? I can see where it would be hard to determine how precisely to act - professionally, employer-employee, or "a little bit in loco parentis"?