My ds is turning 6 in July & he's just started school this year. There's a couple of boys in his class that he knows from pre-school, but he's been separated from quite a few of the kids he was with last year. My concern I guess, is that even though he seems to have someone to play with every day and is a sociable child, he doesn't have a 'best friend' as such - he didn't have one last year either. His pre-school teacher told me last year that he always had someone to play with, but he just hasn't had a 'special friend' since he started school, if you know what I mean... just several kids he plays with but isn't particularly close to. Is this quite normal? Unfortunately he left all his kindergarten friends behind when he started pre-school somewhere else. I just thought he might've really clicked with another child at school by now. The other thing that gets on my nerves is that a boy who ds REALLY likes seems to be very fickle when it comes to ds - sometimes he'll play with ds, and other times he just tells him to 'go away'. I know this is probably quite normal but I don't think ds understands why it happens - he really likes this kid and I think it upsets him. Today I asked him who he played with at lunch time, and he said he went to a special Valentine's Day class (they did art & craft, played games etc) in the lunch hour instead of playing with his friends. He said he did this because he wanted to.
Maybe I'm getting too concerned over nothing, I mean he has had playdates etc with other kids and he is not shy or anything, but I just wonder if it's normal not to have a best friend or a 'solid' couple of friends, rather than flitting around with different children.. thanks.