I’ve got two lads 8 and 5 and they don’t really socialise all that much outside of school or the clubs I take them to (football/swimming etc.) and even then they don’t really “make friends”.
They have a healthy set of friends in school and they play Fortnite etc. online with their friends every now and again (well the older one does) but don’t show a whole lot of interest in socialising outside of this.
I think half the problem is that my and my Wife are also quite happy in our own company so we don’t really have a bunch of friends with kids who socialise either.
I always remembner socialising so much as a kid, being out on the street or going to BBQs/parties etc. but we don’t really do much of that at all.
We’ve tried to have friends round for the older one, invited kids around but he hated it. Messed up his stuff and even the few times he enjoyed it, he asked them to leave after an hour or 2.
Don’t know whether it’s just more normal these days or whether it’s holding them back.
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