Taking DS to bed tonight, he said he wanted 'a private word', this is a usual occurrence and can be anything from Minecraft to something he's worried about. Anyway, he said he hates his life and has no friends. He has two good friends who are not in his school, his class is small, only 20 kids and most of the boys are football mad, and he's not into football. He's into Lego, imaginative play and cycling (recent craze). He's always been very sensitive, empathetic and I think he actually gets on pretty much with anybody. He's moving up to middle school in Sept so I talked about there being a bigger pool of people there, more likely to meet people he has things in common with, let's arrange play dates for the weekend with out of school friends, etc.
Anything else I can do to help him? I'm heartbroken that he feels like this, though I was a fairly melancholy child and so was DH so poor DS probably has no hope! I am pleased that he will talk to me about things like this though.
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RunDougalRunQuiteFast · 09/07/2014 22:09
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