My 8yr old came home in tears for first time on Tues because she says she has no friends! We have been off with the snow since then. She is quite sociable and has not had a problem before. She has had a 'best friend' for about 2 years who although is very different to her was always by her side. This BF has now joined another group of girls and my daughter says she hasn't played with her for about 6 weeks(!) and she has been keeping it to herself. I know girls can start to get tricky with their friendships at this age and obviously we have had minor upsets before but my daughter is fairly robust and has not been upset like this before. Recently they have been setting the children for maths and english etc and is is becoming apparent that DD is very bright. DD also has amazing imagination and develops games which can be hard to follow! There are only 10 girls in her class of 30 so the choice of girls to play with fairly limited and there have been fixed groups for years. I have tried to reassure her that things will change again and not to take it personally and to try and tough it out....any other advice or thoughts most welcome!
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Help my daughter is losing her friends. Why?
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totallymummy · 08/01/2010 10:00
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