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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is always the one inviting and never gets reciprocated.  He’s had the same group of friends since 4th grade and he’s now in 9th.  He doesn’t make plans every weekend but when it suits him.  He has realized most kids are home too and not hanging with friends all the time.  You need to realize that too.  There are more kids home chilling than you think.  If he likes his friends, who cares if they don’t reciprocate? My son loves having his friends at his place.  His friends do not live in an environment where they can have friends over so I understand why it’s one-sided.  I think he understands now too. [/quote]
For a while, my DS tried to reach out several times, but found that kids had no time.  A lot of kids are over scheduled. Or, maybe they just didn't want to hang out with him.

He's now a junior in HS, found his tribe in a magnet, and has a very active social life.  They do play online together, too, especially during the pandemic, but now, it's mostly at night after they are done with HW.  On the w/e, they do get together more often and go have dinner together.  I think when they are older, it's so much easier for the boys to get together because they can go places on their own and hang out.  Just watching my DS's social life evolve, it seems like for boys at least, it's much more organic. They don't make a huge effort to get together. A lot of times it's very last minute and spontaneous.

Along those lines, when DS switched to an iphone, he started to get more plugged into what was going on. He used to have an android, and the kids would have a huge group message going on on the imessage app.  Apparently, it's harder to get android phones on that chat, and like I said, it's much  more organic and spontaneous, and no one makes an effort to include non-iphone users.  There is another kid DS knows who does't have an iphone, and that kid also gets excluded from group chats.

I never once thought this would be an issue when my kids got a phone.  But, there it is.[/quote]

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