How do help your 4 year old ds to not cry so much, as he is loosing friends [sad]

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He is a very sensitive boy, and does cry a lot, but surely lots of 4 year olds do?
We have talked a bit about this before, as I suppose I was always a little worried about how his peers would react (knowing what children can be like).
I just said that there is nothing wrong with crying, but you shouldn't cry unless you have hurt yourself or you feel really sad, not just if you feel a bit sad.
Its so hard to quantify these things. To a 4 year old falling over and scraping your knee is a big thing.
He was so looking forward to starting school to see all his friends and now two of his closest friends have said they don't want to be his friend because he cries too much.
Ds said to me "I only cry when I hurt myself Mummy,like you said, but I hurt myself a lot"
He is a bit clumsy, and I can imagine in trying to keep up with his friends in the playground he would fall over a lot.

I am probably over reacting, I know these things are so said, but he looked so crestfallen. Any advice any one?

I just had to post as he sounds exactly like me as a child. I was always crying at primary school. I can remember once standing in the dinner queue crying and not even knowing why but I just couldn't stop it. It may have been a little easier for me as a girl but I did get teased for it sometimes. In the end though I had 4 close friends who just accepted me and I didn't care what others thought. Perhaps you could try to encourage different friendships there might be other children more similar. I remember that it was always worse if people paid a lot of attention to it and so I took myself off somewhere quiet if I could feel the tears about to start.
I grew out of it in the end well before 2nd school and now I work in mental health where being in touch with your feelings is no bad thing!

Finally managed to get hold of my Mum. She suggested that you have a chat with his class teacher about your concerns so that she/he can incorporate it into circle time or maybe do some frienship cirle stuff with him