My son is nearly 6, in year 1 at school. While we are busy working, not really made any friends with other parents at school and most of our own friends have no children or live far away. Both sides of the family, our kids are the only kids, no cousins etc.
My son started off at school really well, with a few friends he loved playing with. That soon changed and he moved on to playing with two particular boys, then one and now none. He said he doesn't like play fighting with the rest of the boys at school. Sometimes his friends run away from him in the playground.
He used to be very reserved as a toddler but since starting school, he has really opened up and chats a lot. He will make friends at the park with children he doesn't know with ease. AT swimming and tennis lessons, he also talks well to other children.
At home, he loves to play computer games, on my phone or watch movies. I have limited screen related activities to one film per week, 10 minutes on nintendo ds or my phone per night and 1 hour playstation once a week at the weekend otherwise he gets aggressive and won't stop playing.
As a child, i grew up with busy parents who will pick me up from school and would take me straight home where my mum worked from home. I never really played with kids from school outside of school. I remember struggling to make friendships at school, i always found it awkward.
He tells me he tries to queue up next to his friends when going out to the playground otherwise will lose them. He also, regularly asks the boy he likes to play with if he will play with him and yesterday the boy told my son he hates him.
What can i do to help him?