What advice would you give your dd, to help them fit in better with other girls?

[barbiehouse]

My dd goes to small school, has poor, but improving speech, and seems desperate to fit in with the other girls in her class.

She has played a lot more with the boys, who seem fond of her, but now want to hang out with the other boys.

She told me last night that the other girls wouldn't let her play with them, and so she has noone to play with for a lot of the time.

It's awful, isn't it. But I think we have to be careful not to act on our own fears, so that our children can find their own way whilst we support in the background.

DS2 sometimes doesn't make much of an effort with the other children, I don't think. Maybe he doesn't know how. I can help him work on that. Maybe some of it is about confidence and I can ferry him to after school activites if he wants to do them - at the moment karate is going well. He also does swimming (not social, particularly, I don't think) and Cubs.

But maybe he just isn't a massively social, life-and-soul type person and, as long as he's happy, that's ok.