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Shy teenager
Hello,
I have a 13 year old son in eigth grade who has stopped interacting with his friends almost completely in the last 8-12 months. I was shy as a child, and he always has been too but he always had a few friends that he did things with occasionally. At times, he's had close friends. He's not particularly good at sports. He's getting all A's and B's in school and I don't have to bug him much to do his homework. He's well behaved and healthy which makes me feel lucky! I am concerned about his dis-interest in friends. His friends would call and he wouldn't call them back. If we make him go to a friends house, he almost always has a good time but isn't interested in getting together more. It got to the point where I moved to another neighborhood where more of his friends live to make it easier for him to get together with them and it hasn't help. I've been a single Dad for 5 years and have my kids every other week. Get along good with their Mom. For a divorce, it's about as good as it can get. We're both caring and involved parents. Neither his mom or I are home in the afternoon (which I'm trying to fix too) so we can't really be here to push him to be with friends in the afternoon. When I am home, I try to do this but he's not interested. He really likes hanging out with his 10 year old brother. His brother has lots of friends and does sleep overs a lot and my older son would rather have him around (most of the time). Their mom thinks I should force him to go to his friends house. that may work, but doesn't seem right to me. He should want to be with his friends. In his free time he liked to play video games (esp renescape.com). He's a very 'straight' kid and I don't think he's gotten into anything bad on the internet or with friends. Any ideas? Is he just shy and maybe I should give it more time? He's starting high school next year and I want his experience with friends to be good. Thanks, Dad661 |
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