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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you tried getting him together one-on-one with the girls from the summer group? I hate seeing all these gendered assumptions. My DS is best friends with 3 girls. Two of them like dolls, one hates dolls, one is a stereotypical pink-fanatic, one is a tomboy, one is a diva, but when they're together they tend to do creative things like arts and crafts or coming up with games to play.

The summer girls may have a "group" because of common interests like girl scouts, and I can see how a group of them together might feed off each other and exclude your son. But one-on-one with your son, they will probably find something in common to do. Don't just say "he's not their main-go-to" and give up. You don't have to be BFF to have a good time together.[/quote]

OP here: He actually is very close to one girl in the group and they're very good friends because our families are close and are good friends.  They see each other one on one quite a bit, but my point is that she's got the preschool girls and is also already making friends with other girls in ES so naturally she is going to have other friends to hang with other than him, and I'd like the same for him. He's happy playing with anything, barbies, dolls etc.--it's not a gender thing.  And even in Kindergarten he's made friends with the girls in addition to the boys. He's happy playing with either gender, as most kids are still at this age.  
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