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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For high school, there is some app that helps people find someone to eat with during lunch.  I don’t know exactly how it works, but I think there are probably kids who volunteer to be a host and then other kids know they will be welcomed at a table.  This may not work at the middle school level because so many kids don’t use phones at that age, but it does show this lunch thing is a big deal that people try to fix.  I don’t think it would be amiss for you to sit with a counselor to brainstorm ideas to address this — like maybe have one of the schoolwide counseling talks be about reaching out new people to join you for lunch.  My 6th grade kid would be the type of kid to respond to that kind of talk and possibly get up the gumption to invite someone who looks alone to sit at his table.  He would also be the type to do so if a counselor quietly mentioned it to him privately.  Kids just assume other kids are doing what they want to do, not that they are being excluded and feeling lonely.  Best of luck with this.  I know it’s hard.[/quote]

yes, absolutely! All three of my kids would welcome another kid with no reservations.  Lots of kids would, they are just not "aware" of their surroundings.  I will tell you that my son started 6th grade with no friends.  He did not know where to sit and saw a couple of kids from his band class at a table.  He sat down and they have been sitting together for six years now.  They have been best friends ever since.  I remember him being very anxious about lunch time.  I told him to find a familiar face and sit with them.  If it does not work try another.  [/quote]

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