My 13 year old DS has mostly girl friends. The girls are lovely when they are with him but he often gets left out which seems natural but unfair. Some recent examples have left me feeling heartbroken for him including one incident on his birthday.
He said he had made a male friend in school but the girls were not keen and he dropped this relationship in favour of the girls.
I’m sure I will get some comments to try after school activities to meet new friends with shared interests, and this seems ideal to me, to maybe have two friend groups so he is less reliant on the girls from school. However, we’ve tried everything since he was 3 and nothing sticks. He’s not very sporty (particularly team sports) and there are not a lot of other options where we live.
He seems popular in that if he comes with me to do the food shop for example there is nearly always someone calling his name to say hi, however none of these seem to want to do anything outside school with him.
I’m not sure anyone will have a magic answer to this one, but wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar and how did it pan out?