Hi
My daughter is very bright, excellent student, described by her teachers as a leader, and seems very confident and well spoken. She is a friendly girl but has always had difficulty making close friends. We have moved a lot and this has contributed. While other girls seemed to always have a best friend, my daughter has always had casual friends and very few. I noticed at our last location, grades 4,5 and 6, she did not seem to make friends with girls she had common interests or similar personalities with. She seemed to just be friends with the two girls on her bus who lived close, but neither of those girls were particularly nice or that my daughter enjoyed their company much. We moved last summer and her seventh grade year was very stressful. She has made similarly casual friends. Spends most of her free time reading and watching utubes. I am pressuring her to invite friends over to swim in our pool. She finds it awkward to be with friends without an activity. Her two "closest" friends don't really enjoy each other. Having them together is uncomfortable for her. She is on a swim team and has made no friends. I have encourages her to invite anyone from there over or out to a movie. It is summer and it makes me crazy to see her hanging out alone at home with me and her brother as her only companions. How do I help her? When I bring it up, she gets Geary and depressed feeling like she is a weirdo and inadequate.
Worried Mom