DS1 only plays with girls

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After a bit of advice from more experienced Mums!
My son is due to move to primary school this year. Apart from sons of friends who he kind of has to be friends with, he really only makes good friends with girls.
Obviously I have no problem with this and he should be friends with who he wants to be friends with!
But does anyone have any experience with this, with regard to how their boys were treated by the other boys at school? I want him to be friends with who he clicks with but don't want him to be ostracized by the other boys in his class!

My friend's DS preferred to play with girls at nursery, preferred dressing up as a princess to rough and tumble etc. He didn't have any issues at primary: he still tended to prefer playing with girls, and maintained good friendships with a couple of the girls in his class. My friend never mentioned any bullying issues at all.

He now goes to a boys' grammar school and has settled in well, but still keeps up a good friendship with his best two friends from primary school, who are both girls.

He is only 4, I wouldn't worry about this at all.

Aw that's lovely to hear 😊
I think it's a lovely quality and I do hope he keeps his ability to communicate well with girls

Thank you x

Sounds entirely normal for a four year old. Not worth overthinking.

IME 5 yr olds don’t give two hoots about who’s friends with who

No problem whatsoever for my son, who after 8 years of only having girls as friends made friends with only boys at secondary (teasing comments started about it being his girlfriends here). Not worth batting an eyelid over!

My DS doesn't like team sports so tended to gravitate towards the girls, this is still the case in year 5. My old concern is a lot of high schools round where we are are single sex so he's unlikely to move up with his friends.

My nearly 8 year old has always been like this his nursery key worker even told his primary teacher. We try and organise play dates with boys he’s friendly with but it doesn’t usually carry on.

As a pp said our worry is secondary as the best ones locally are single sex.

He has never been picked on for it and I don’t think any of the other children have really noticed.

At that age, it’s perfectly normal for kids to just be friends with the kids in front of them / who they click with. The sex of the child is irrelevant.