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piddlyrainstorm · 08/05/2023 11:15

Dd 3 is lovely but doesn't have that many friends as my husband and I aren't that sociable and we have no family around so most weekends it's just the three of us which sometimes I find a bit..draining maybe always entertaining her?!
We see two other families sporadically but we are hoping when she goes to school she will make more friends so she has some play mates to do things with at the weekend. Her nursery is a no go as hubby does all the drop off and pick ups at odd hours as I WFH and she's changing shortly as it's a very snobby private school nursery where most kid will stay on at the prep.
But the school we want her to go to has an odd system of the teachers collect the kids from the car park as it's rural with very limited parking..so my thoughts of being able to make friends with mums at pick up etc seem to have go by the wayside? And I'm wondering if I should pick another school.
We have signed her up to do rainbows and squirrels when she's four but there are huge wait lists and I feel like she's missing out a bit on interacting with other kids as she'll be an only child due to a nightmare birth and recovery.
Maybe I'm overthinking this but another bank hol where it's just the three of us while I watch other kids playing with friends and cousins makes me feel a bit sad for her 🙃 any thoughts? How does it work? I'm not looking for friends myself but some social events for her.

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stormy11 · 08/05/2023 11:23

Do you take her to any groups now where she can make friends with you there?
Tbh it does help if you do try to make friends for yourself at groups who have children.
My daughter has a lovely group of friends and I have gained a lovely group of mum friends too.
I just want to add that I am not very sociable either, but I have put the effort in even when feeling anxious and uncomfortable.

piddlyrainstorm · 08/05/2023 11:31

Hi, I do a toddler group on my day off with her and we have lovely friends there..but not people I would meet up with a weekend etc as people are always busy with family.

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HereWeGo456 · 08/05/2023 11:36

piddlyrainstorm · 08/05/2023 11:31

Hi, I do a toddler group on my day off with her and we have lovely friends there..but not people I would meet up with a weekend etc as people are always busy with family.

I think you'll find similar with school friends too, although not always. I'm happy to meet up with school friends and parents through the week, but less likely on a weekend as I do like that to be our time.

One of my DD's friends (and her Mum) made my DD and some of the other girls a little gift bag with stickers and things, nothing overly expensive. The teachers passed them on, and inside she'd wrote a name with her name and number and said to please contact her if we'd ever like to meet up outside of school Smile that could potentially work, she done that with 4/5 of us and we now have a WhatsApp group and all regularly meet up.

HereWeGo456 · 08/05/2023 11:36

*wrote a note, sorry!

piddlyrainstorm · 08/05/2023 11:40

@HereWeGo456
Ah that's a lovely idea, thank you. I'd just like the odd meet up, maybe once a month.
My sister is a complete social butterfly with all the friends of both my nephews (11 and 13) and that always makes me feel we are doing something wrong

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