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[quote=Anonymous]He may not be able to hang on to the entire group, but he may be able to hang on to one friend. Is there one who he has known the longest or been closer with than the others. One friend once or twice a week during the summer may make an otherwise unbearable summer okay.

Also, you care about him. You love him. Plan one event each week that you can do together. Go to the fireworks, go to nationals games, go to orioles games, go to wolktrap for concerts. So over the course of the summer you go to ten events once each week and each event costs a hundred bucks that $1k; much cheaper than therapy.

Then if he has one friend that's one more event/hang out time. Combine that with sleeping late in the morning which they all do and before you'll know it the summer will be finished. It back to school and he'll again be too busy to be lonely.

It's not easy being a kid. So often they feel powerless and they don't understand why the world is often unkind. The good knew is that childhood is really quite short and we have the rest of our adult lives to choose our own schools, jobs, and friends. Also, as adults we are more likely to judged on the merits of our kindness, intelligence, and abilities rather than a small group of fickle children who are not even self-aware themselves. Not too long from now he'll wake up one morning and all of a sudden everything will be different; he'll have grown into manhood.

Good luck - know that it's hard and it's inescapable, you too will feel his pain, but know it is only temporary.  Stick with him - love him and you'll both be fine[/quote]

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