Go easy on me, I'm feeling a bit emotional about this today...
DS is three and an only child. Before the six weeks holidays started he was going to playgroup twice a week and will be going to pre-school five mornings a week from September. He's really sociable, kind and funny and has one good little friend at playgroup but we haven't seen him since the holidays began, depsite my invitations for him to come and play with DS. I've tried not to take it personally because I know his mum has lots of friends with LOs already so he has mates of his own.
None of my friends have children so I don't seem to have a ready-made social circle of LOs like a lot of parents seem to. I've taken DS to the park/soft play etc since the holidays started and it breaks my heart that he seems to be the only one there alone. He tries to join in a group but gets shunted away most of the time. I'm not one of these mums who thinks "MY child is lovely, why won't they play with him" when really he's a little horror, but honestly, he's a gorgeous little boy. I feel like he should have lots of little friends. I find it easy talking to mums outside playgroup but rellay hard to make proper friendships. People seem to have their groups and they stick to them and that's fine. I don'tmind about me, just wish that DS had a couple of LOs to run about with. :(
AIBU to worry about this at such a young age? Sorry for the long post.