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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boys at this age run in a big pack and they are very very mean and clannish. If you aren’t in their pack, forget it.

He needs to make friends with girls. This is my go to advice for kids struggling with same sec friendships. Opposite sex friends are more forgiving of each other with social skill deficits, plus having a mixed gender friend group is viewed as very “high school” and has a certain social status in a way, as it’s what older teens do. Girls are very organized and plan things and love having a “boy bsf” it’s a whole thing. [/quote]

Disagree. My 7th grade son doesn’t really see anyone outside of school (he had never asked), but it pretty well liked in school, according to teachers and from what I can see.  He seems to have several friends and is always laughing and joking with a few kids at pickup, always has people to sit with at lunch, seems very happy in general.  He also has friends through an extracurricular sport outside of school. Again, happy to socialize with them there and the occasional get together, but is never asking to make plans.  He seems perfectly fine doing his own thing on weekends and after school, (which are very busy anyhow), and socializing at school. [/quote]

Same my son,7th grader, is perfectly fine at school has friends, he is not teased, but he doesn’t want to make plans for the weekend. It is frustrating because I don’t know if I should push him to socialize on the weekend or not. I don’t like that he spends his weekend on video games so I usually make plans for us to do something together. I made him plan  his 13th year old birthday party and all of the people he invited came. However, he was only invited to one party. I don’t know if his cohort doesn’t socialize outside school or if he is excluded from the group. 
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