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[quote=Anonymous]My son is also a rising first grader and I had similar observations. He played with the neighbor boy who is 2 years older than him 1-2x/week, did scouts and occasional sports, but no one really "stuck." Somewhere along the last quarter of kinder he identified a few boys that he liked and wanted to spend time with outside of school. A few things that I wonder if are relevant to your situation:

1) We moved to a small town just before kinder started. He didn't have time to make daycare/preschool friends, and this town has some major clique-y behavior. There were lots of kids in his K class that had deep family friendships that influence playdates/invitations/etc.

2) He is young, with a mid-June birthday. I think he may have just been slower to develop that social milestone because, well, he is younger. I also believe it did not help that at least half the boys in his class were redshirted, further highlighting the discrepancy in maturity.

3) Something that surprised me is that 2 of the 4 or so names he came to mention regularly were kids who were not in his class. They met on the playground or on the bus. My point here is just he may connect with kids he doesn't have immediate/easy access to and the group will change a bit in first. [/quote]

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