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[quote=Anonymous]What is the  friendship between boys like in 4h/5th grades? Do they have ‘best friend’ or mostly hang out with a few kids. I am struggling to understand the friendship dynamics as my kid is trying really hard to become good friends with some boys who are ‘popular’ but they don’t seem to want to interact with him that much. They are friendly, but play dates with those boys are not reciprocated and the whole friendship seems one sided. For example, they will not play with my DS if they have an option. Whereas my DS will drop everything to play with them. I want to help him understand these boys are not the kind of friends he wants but he is unable to comprehend that and keeps insisting that they are his friends. He also feels really sad when he finds out the ‘popular’ boys had a sleepover or they didn’t invite him to play some game online. 
My DS does have other friends who are nicer to him and the play dates are reciprocated etc. But he seems to be fixated on this popular group of boys.. any suggestions on how to navigate this?[/quote]

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