My son only has his school friends to play with is this unusual

[ghostfreak]

Hi
My ds is quite popular at school and frequently has school friends home after school for tea.
However this is the only contact he has with children his own age he is 7 btw.
He never plays out with anybody in the street, there never really appears to be any children out playing where I am so he doesn,t have any mates at all out of school.

I have worried and fretted about this alot wondering if this is okay and if my ds is missing out.

I s this unusual do you think as I am aware that many children these days have neighbourhood friends that they play out with.
It is something that has been bothering me alot.
There are no cousins etc of his own age to play with.
I also don,t have friends with children so nobody there either.
Is anybodys else,s child like this.
He is an only btw.

I wouldn't worry.
He's happy at school and has friends there.
If he's getting a bit bored at home, maybe you could look into some clubs for him to join eg: Beavers?

If there were children playing out in the street, presumably they would go to ds's school and be school friends?

I wouldn't worry. He sounds popular and well settled, it would be worrying if he didn't have school friends, but he has. So that's good.

Hi
Did try beavers for about 4 months but he decided to quit after alot of agonising.

We are in a different area to all of his school friends so none of them live close.
He is to start a new school in September in our area.

I tried various clubs with mine to enable her to make friends outside school but it didn't work. In clubs they already seem to have their mates and so dd would be outsider.

No dc playing on the streets here at all. Dd (7) also only plays with dc at school or from school if parents arrange it. Norm where we live I think.

rey
Thats the problem isn,t it.
They all seem to join these things with a friend or a sibling.
I feel bad for my ds it can so much easier for other children to mix into these things if they have joined with a friend or a sibling.
Its the same with the parents, I know they don,t mean it but they are also established in their friendships at these things.
I am really shy which doesn,t help.

Lostittoday being shy really doesn't help either I try to change for the sake of mine but they are shy in spite of my efforts.