Not friends anymore- what should I do?

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To preface- we are not in the UK.

DS will be 7 at the end of August and is in his second year of education. In his first year he didn’t make any solid friendships, he was just happily friends with everyone.

Since last Autumn, he has formed a little friendship group with 3 boys in his class. One in particular has been his best friend, they have been quite inseparable.

This week DS has been very upset. His best friend had announced that he doesn’t want to be friends anymore. He hasn’t given a reason why. And the other two boys are siding with him. So DS is feeling very left out.

I have told DS that his friend will probably stop being silly soon. But what if it continues? Do I just stay out of it and let them figure it out for themselves?

We‘ve got our two weeks holiday from today so I hope it blows over and goes back to normal soon.

My children are much younger so I don’t have solid advice - but I can imagine how you feel.

I suppose I’d tell him stories of my childhood where something similar has happened to me - so he’s assured that these things are normal and eventually pass.

Definitely agree with him that it's rubbish when people hurt your feelings. It happens all the time to grown ups too.

It may well all blow over after the holidays, it may not. Can he start some club or activity to make some new friendships?

Can you contact the parent of one of the other boys he's not actually fallen out with and see if they want to meet up in the holidays?

Thanks. I like the idea of telling him times I have experienced this, especially if it makes him feel less alone.

Arranging a playdate with one of the other boys would be good. To try to build up another friendship so it’s not the end of the world if this one doesn’t work out.

DS can be a bit intense, I do worry that he has annoyed his friend a few too many times 😬

I know it is all part of life and growing up, but it hurts so much to hear him say that his friends don’t like him any more 😔