Friendships between girls and boys

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My DD has just turned 6. When she was in reception she had a best friend who was a boy. Now in Year 1she has a close friend , also a boy.
She seems to be closer with boys. She has friends who are girls but boys she gravitates to.
I'm happy of course she makes friends but feel like she needs more girlfriends.

Anyone relate - does it just fade out after 6?
Thanks

Nope. She will be fine. She can make friends with some girls later if she likes. At that ages kids are just kids so it is really pretty irrelevant.

Interesting you should post this, as I have been wondering exactly the same thing about my Y3 DD. She plays almost exclusively with boys and (based upon 11yo DS experience) I expected this to fade away this year as they moved up into Juniors but it shows no sign of waning so far.

Just from our own perspective, I am starting to wonder if DD may be ND as she shows many traits and appears to struggle socially- i think typical boy's play of running about chasing each other is "easier" for her than role play.

However another factor could be that the boys she plays with are families we also see socially at weekends, so perhaps she is just more comfortable with them.

Why do you think she needs more female friends? DS is 12 now, but has always had a mix of friends, and by far his closest friend at that age was female. In my experience there was a temporary retreat into same-sex friendships around 8-10, but then things mixed up again. He now attends a boys-only secondary, but still plays online a lot with female friends from primary, and occasionally meets them at the skatepark.

What Geneticsbunny said.

There's a girl in my daughter's year (I'll call her Emma) who's always been friends with boys. She has one or two female friends but mostly gets on well with boys, since she started preschool. She's now 14. I've never seen anything wrong with this. I have to say there's a lot I've always admired about Emma. She is very much, unashamedly, herself. She has no interest in what's fashionable or cool. She just is what she is. She loves books and discussing ideas. My own DD spends hours doing her hair, worrying about skincare, will only wear branded tops and what's fashionable. Sometimes I wish she just didn't care about all that rubbish, like Emma.
I'd let your daughter be. Make she'll start hanging out with girls as she gets older. Maybe not but either way, let her be herself.

She does play with girls -and tells me lots of things she plays with girls are things like Mummy's and Daddy's and those role play games...she seems fine with that...

I think it may be just they are the friend at the moment ..but also she likes to play games and they played a bit of football today ..

She says sometimes there's too much arguing amongst the girls what to play. They only get a short amount of time to play..

I'm a bit late to this thread but to reassure you, my DD has always had lots of male friends, since very early on in primary school and I only ever encouraged her to continue to play with and spend time with the children she was most comfortable with. Now, three years into secondary school and with all new pupils, her comfort level with boys has led to her being in a lovely supportive mixed-sex friendship group (she introduced boys into it). Doing so has avoided or diluted a lot of 'girl drama' as hormones hit.

We regularly have sleepovers with various combinations of boys and girls and they're all very sweet. She is super frank with her male friends about periods (hilariously so) and answers all their questions about the mysterious lives of girls while they quite happily chat on the phone to her for ages, come for advice about their crushes and even send pics of their outfits when they're out and about! I honestly believe that normalising friendships with the opposite sex is a gift that will pay dividends later in life.