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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here: When I say no friends, I mean no friends. No one to play video games with on weekends, no friends to invite to a pizza party (neighborhood kids exclude him). I agree that it is important that I don’t make him feel bad about it. But I know he has tried to reach out to kids to play video games with or meet up with. It’s just hard to understand why he is in this situation given that he is a pretty friendly, nice kid. He dresses well enough, sporty, funny.  There are so many different groups of kids at his school but he hasn’t found anyone.[/quote]

I think it’s more common than you think. I have a 13 yo and talk to other parents and their sons seem to be going through the same. Mine plays on a team and gets along well with the other guys there. They will enjoy the game this weekend and all be friendly. But he doesn’t talk to any of them outside of school. I’m friends with some of the parents of his friends from elementary. They boys seem to have drifted apart and all basically stay home now. Part of this is they are tired from getting up so early. Part of it is middle school and interests change. It’s an awkward time.  They are all in 8th grade. But none of them seem sad or depressed or anything. I’m making sure he signs up for one sport per season and so are other parents, just to make sure they do something.

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