My daughter just started 4th grade.
She is in a class with mostly new peers, only a few kids from her class last year. Her close friends are not in class with her. She is struggling a bit with the transition and feels that she has difficulty making new friends. She has a growing friendship with two girls who are closer and she often feels excluded. One of them actually said yesterday she was the third wheel.
How can I help her?
Is it ok to allow my daughter to call her friends after she's done with homework?
During weekdays, if my daughter is done with all of her schoolwork, is it appropriate to allow her to call her friends?
Part of me wants to say yes, she has earned the social time. But part of me wants to say no, as sometimes I feel like she rushes through homework or practicing piano just to get to the call. And perhaps the time at home is an opportunity to work on other things, since she got social time during the school day… Or has she?
My daughter is having a hard time fitting in with a new group of schoolmates. How should I help her?
How can I better handle my kid having a difficult time with friends in school? My daughter changed classes and the majority of her closest friends are in the other class. Before school started we talked about how good of an opportunity it would be to get to know some of the other students (girls) a bit better while still keeping old friendships. It doesn’t happen every day but she has been complaining about how it’s been hard to fit in and how the other girls seem to not like her. How should I help her?
My daughters only want to have plans with their friends and nothing with the family. How do I shift this?
My daughter wants to have play dates every weekend with her friends, which sometimes is not possible. She gets very upset and feels like doing things with the family is not "enough'. Even for my other daughter, every time we tell them we are doing something they ask "with who?" If the answer is just with us (the family) they both say they don't want to go. How do I shift this?