DS upset last night, so posting for wise words .
He's just going into yr10, and the form groups have been shaken up.
In his last form, which he'd been in for 3 years, he'd formed a group of 5 friends and they'd go off to the cinema, each others' houses, occasionally theme parks, etc etc. He's also always had a wider group of casual acquaintances. He's friendly, kind, generally nice kid (yes I'm biased, I know!)
He also has a close friendship with a boy up the road who goes to a different school, and they're forever in and out of each others houses, having sleepovers etc. They see each other prob. 3 nights during the week and one of the weekend days.
Anyway, with this form group shakeup he isn't seeing much of his old friends and eveyone seems to be regrouping. I know that he's worried that he'll be left with no friends so have suggested that he invites new people round for tea after school etc as that's how most of his old friendships got off the ground, but he's not keen.
Last night he & his local friend had a bit of a fallout, can't quite work out why, and I suspect it'll blow over soon, but when he went to bed last night he was close to tears and saying that now he doesn't have any friends left..
I've told him that everyone prob. goes through these times sometimes, and it's just a little glitch, but (and I know I'm rambling), has anyone else's teen gone through this and how did it work out?
He's an only, btw.
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smileydee · 12/09/2009 08:51
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