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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you are not alone. I just want to say that my HS-aged son also socializes little. It is concerning because I know from my teen-hood some of the growth experiences he is missing out on, but also am grateful for the growing pains (the ones with lots of consequences but few lessons) that he won't have to grapple with. I watch and hope for the best. I try to encourage participation when opportunities to go out come up... Mostly these are organized by the one female in the friend group (but, often, when one of the boys flakes, the rest follow suit.) I am constantly, inwardly, hoping something will finally fall in to place and happen, and I am often silently disappointed. Still, my son doesn't seem all too bothered, and he's social and friendly with classmates. We are just riding this ride with him.

I agree with a lot of PPs' observations. It seems that my son and his male friends feel that they've had a lot of social time sometimes because of texting (although that is infrequent as well). He seems to count socialization time at school and with coworkers at work as enough (more than I would have when young). They live farther away from each other than I did my HS friends. There are more options to socialize from their own couches (video gaming while on an audio call -- this is also rare tho, because of schedule conflicts and HW load). They have more homework, more time spent on sports, more city/traffic travel time (to/fro obligations/jobs, volunteering, etc). Their time is taxed.

I expect dorm life for my now senior will probably be socialization overload compared to his recent years of home-bound HS life. We shall see. It's a different world.[/quote]

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