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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is he on any teams? A lot of the friend groups in my area are based on classroom placement but also sports teams outside of school. [/quote]

The popular boys are on travel teams and my DS does rec so no they are not on the same team.[/quote]

Ah, then that may be part of it. And the parents of these teams can be cliquey. I know it’s a stereotype, but I’ve seen that sport parents can be a big part of engineering friendships at this age. [/quote]

And those kids and families spend a lot of time together- not just at games and practices but team events, carpools, downtime between games etc. The parents often become friends and quite cliquey. [/quote]

I -accidentally- had my son join one these teams a couple years ago when he was in lower elementary and I didn’t know anything about team sports. I figured at that age kids could just join whatever team and it was just for fun.

Man was I wrong! I, as a grown *ss adult, felt so excluded and weird. The adult friendships seemed cliquey and incestuous the way certain high school groups were. It was also difficult to see most of the rest of the team running and joking around and have my son be the odd man out. He dropped after a season. I think the rest of those boys are still together on the same team, as are their parents. [/quote]

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